our first family vacation

..was a disaster.
:)
That's saying it nicely. We drove 16 hours to North Carolina and Kate did fabulously. We had my mom, dad, 2 of my brothers, future sis-in-law, my brother's baby-mama, and my 3 year old nephew. Unfortunately two people riding in our mini-van were sick. We didn't know that until we picked them up. So we were trapped with sick people in a small space for 16 hours. My hubby got sick the day after we got there with the same plague that the sick people in our car had. F-U-N!
We tried to keep my 3 year old nephew away from Kate since he was one of the sick ones with a horrible cough and congestion. He coughed on all of her toys, coughed in her face, coughed in everyones face. We kept trying to keep him away which annoyed his parents, but hey.. what can we do. So we had sick people in a house on the beach. When we got there the beach house wasn't cleaned very well by the cleaning people and the coffee pot was broken so right off the bat I had to make a call. Everyone was cranky because they were sick, and I won't go into it but there were some things certain people did that annoyed me beyond belief.
The straw that broke the camel's back was when my future sis-in-law gave my sweet baby Kate a spoonful of yogurt when we weren't looking. We haven't started solids, and of course dairy is a no-no. Kate spent the morning barfing and of course it was the day we left so she spent the day in the car either barfing, pooping her brains out, or sleeping through the misery. :(
We've gone on this trip for the last 3 years, and this year was the grand finale'... We've had fun the previous two years, but I just wasn't feeling the love this year..
That is all..

OH -- and I've attached a map of where Katie Mac has traveled so far in her life! :) how exciting!


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