Yes, I am well aware of the fact that I take a lot of pictures!!! But hey, I make no apologies. I love my family and want to savor every moment that we get to spend together – life is too short to even forget the small stuff. So, with that said, this year I made a slide show/video of our vacation since there were so many pictures. But it turns out that the video was too large!! Haha… Oh well, we will just break these up into sections again. So here we go…
We had a great trip – and we were determined to after our Virginia Beach fiasco!! It started off a little rough though…and as Nate says, you can’t make this stuff up!!!
When we started to leave TN, Nathan got stung by a wasp which detoured u,/s to our doctor’s office for a shot (he is crazy allergic) and this delayed our trip by about five hours. Apparently, they couldn’t decide if this was a wasp sting or a brown recluse spider bite….long story. Well, it turned out to be a wasp sting! When we finally left, it was after 5pm TN time and we had to get to Fort Wayne, Indiana because our hotel reservations were there. And, they couldn’t change hotels for us because we had already missed the deadline. Anyway, we got to the hotel at around 2am and slept for about five hours. Then, when it was time to leave for the second leg of the trip up, I got a stomach virus and ended up throwing up five times before we even got on the interstate! It was hilarious and awful at the same time. I decided to drug up on Dramamine, slept for four hours straight and felt tons better. Finally!! After this we decided that everyone was allowed ONE crisis on this trip, and we headed north.
We made it to Mackinaw later that day and decided on pizza before going to get groceries. Well, Tyler decided to push the Emergency Call button on the elevator at the restaurant and after laughing so hard we were crying, I took the three boys off the elevator and left Nathan to deal with the 911 dispatcher on the other end of the line.
The week picked up from there – we only had one other mishap where Tyler decided to bust his head open on the bed frame which ended with five hours in the local ER to get his head stitched up. Hey, what can you do except laugh, right??
With all of that, this did end up being one of the best trips that we have had up there. We didn’t get to go with my immediate family since everyone’s schedules were different this year, but we were super excited to hang out with my extended family while we were there. My cousins loved the boys and my boys couldn’t get enough of them…or their popcorn!! We had such a good trip that we even decided at the very last minute (literally) that we were going to stay another night! Which was a blessing too because we got to have dinner with my parents and grandparents and then got to have another camp fire with the rest of the family. This particular night, we were around about 25 of my family members – way cool.
Everyone has joked lately about the “black cloud” around the Barnes crew due to all of our bad luck lately. But I’ll tell you, black cloud or not, I wouldn’t trade this week with my family for anything! We wanted a week of fun, laughter and family time – and that is exactly what the Lord blessed us with!
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