Ella and i just returned from a week-long vacation in Logan. Carl was unable to go with us because it's his busiest time of the year.
i planned the trip to surprise my mom for mother's day and i think i pulled it off. I had Daph and Esau agree to pick me up at the airport on Saturday, May 8. what a fun plane ride that was. To get the best deal i had to carry Ella on my lap and to make a change in planes in Denver. Ella was a super good traveler for her first time. SEcurity sucked. the gentleman manning the station was just rude to me. i did what i knew was standard but all the extras with having ella and her stroller along were hectic. (ma'am, you need to take off her jacket,and her shoes. take her out of the stroller, fold down the stroller and put it up here. pick up your child...) Thankfully, the gentleman behind me was kind and patient.
we were on a packed plane from Minneapolis to Denver AND we had a middle seat. it was not optimal for travel but i managed to keep Ella on my lap for the hour and 1/2 ride. In Denver i bought myself a sandwich and i started to eat it as soon as we boarded our second plane. i dripped some Ranch on my pants and as i went to clean it up, Ella swooped in and wiped it with her finger and put it in her mouth. Well, she apparently didn't like it because she immediately started to gag and then she threw up on herself and me. that was all before the plane took off. thankfully this plane was only half full and no one was sitting next to me when this happened. i wiped up Ella and myself as best i could and gave her water to get the taste out of her mouth. she fell asleep not long after that and slept all the way to SLC. she must have still been feeling alittle sick when she woke up because she was cranky. Esau picked us up and we went to Costco before we headed home. Ella threw up again there but then seemed to do better until we started for home. she screamed most of the way and slept when she wasn't screaming. she did come down with a fever the day before so perhaps that was playing into how she was feeling. i felt so bad that all of this travel wasn't going well for her and that it had just begun. however, when we made it to Esau's house, she seemed to perk up at being able to walk around with the other kids.
it was wonderful seeing Esau's family, Noe and his girlfriend, my uncle and his family, and my mom! she was surprised and i was happy.
oh, and Rita (yes, from SD) was in town with her fiance because they are moving to SLC later this year so they also stopped by. crazy.
