Our flight was scheduled to leave at 7:20 AM. Our resort bus schedules our departure times from the resort based on our flight time. They like to leave three hours beforehand. This meant that our bus was going to be pulling out at 4:20 in the AM. The lobby, where the bus leaves, was actually about a half mile walk from our room. We arranged bell service to pick up our bags for us and take us to the lobby. The latest time the had available that would work for us was 3:30. Based on those times, Tom and I decided that we could just walk to the bus stop around 4 and give the kids an extra 30 minutes of sleep. We ended up rushing out of our room at 4:10...and running all the way to the bus stop.
The other highlight of the morning was Julianna and her vomit. We really have no reasonable explanation for the vomiting, besides having to wake up in the middle of the night, but vomit she did. As we were walking out the door. And then again several times on the bus. I caught it all with napkins and her blanket...we pretended she was coughing and tried not to draw attention to ourselves. Thankfully I had left her in her jammies, so when we got to the airport I was able to clean her up and change her into clean clothes. I didn't allow her to eat or drink anything until the second flight because I was terrified of her starting to throw up again.
Other than that, and the pure exhaustion everyone was feeling, we did pretty well on the way home. Julianna caught a few cat naps and Drew slept on the second flight. Lily was reasonably well behaved...for the most part. I can say that I feel terribly guilty when I'm the one with screaming children on a flight. For those of you without children: a kind glance in a parent's direction, or a gesture of understanding of any kind, is much appreciated. That didn't actually happen for me, but I know it would have made me feel better. Pretending not to notice the screaming child is not helpful and makes me only feel worse. (Not that it's your job to make me feel better about my screaming kid. I'm just saying, I really am doing everything I can to keep them quiet and happy. They really are good kids. I'm a good mom. And sometimes kids just get tired.)
I'm really glad that we went on this spectacular vacation. It was an easy place to have fun as a family and create really happy memories. However, I am still a very big fan of road trips and simple family vacations. I really am looking forward to our next vacation. We will not fly. We will not stay in a fancy resort. We will cook our own meals and make our own entertainment. And I can promise you that we will have many wonderful happy memories from that vacation too.
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