Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Well, we made it to Niagara. And we managed a second night at the Hill Cumorah Pageant. But that was about it. Mark really wanted to spend one more day with his family. So did Hunter and Noah and Denver. They were having so much fun with their cousins. And I suppose if Caleb hadn't been along for the ride, I might have wanted to stay too. But I'd handled just about all I could handle and I wanted to go home. As it turns out, Caleb had "impressive" double ear infections. No wonder he was so miserable. And you know when Caleb ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. By the time we got home we all needed a vacation all over again.
 Despite my aches and pains and Caleb's screaming and Justus's allergic reaction to the hotel soap and the serious lack of sleep we were all suffering from, we had several happy moments. Like when Mark found Yop in the grocery store in Canada. (That's where you get it Nate. In Canada. And don't worry. Noah is already trying to figure out how to mail you some.) Yop is Yoplait's version of drinkable yogurt and my family fell in love with it when we lived in England. I was really hoping Mark would find some of Kellogg's Apricot Shredded Wheat, but I settled for Yop just fine. That was happy. And the first night we were there, one of the Lamanite girls found the boys in their tarp and saw their glo lights and said, "Oh! I bet if you hold those up during the Abinidi part, I could see you all the way from up there." And then, during the Abinidi part all four boys stuck their arms out of the tarp and started waving their glo sticks all frantic like, hoping that Lamanite girl would see them. That made us smile, even when we were soggy and cold and miserable.
 And you wouldn't believe the amount of joy that filled my heart when Mark and Caleb stumbled upon the park in Palmyra that had real, honest-to-goodness teeter-totters and the old fashioned merry-go-round thing-a-majigger. You know, the kind of thing parks used to have before people got sue happy and people got so freaked out about kids getting hurt that they quit letting kids have real fun. And the boys had fun swimming. And I actually got to read a book the whole way through and have several adult conversations about it which was really nice, to have something to talk about besides what color the kids' boogers were and who needed what antibiotic when.
And it was nice seeing everyone, even if seeing was about all I got to do, what with Caleb being clingy and all. And Mark got to be with his family again and he likes that and that made him happy and of course, when he's happy I'm usually happy too--except when I'm sick and sleep deprived and the kids are fussy and then, I usually don't care what Mark's feeling and end up demanding he take us home right away. Which he did and after three days of recovery I'm feeling much happier and so is Caleb and even though I could totally use another vacation we're so totally not going on another one for a really long time. At least not one that requires eight hours in the car.
 
posted by Shana # 5:59 PM 
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