Steve decided to write this portion of the blog!
Back in July, we took our summer family trip. We went camping up in southern Idaho with the Creager's and Baldwins. What an experience just getting up there with all the kids and equipment! First of all, we decided we'd leave Saturday morning at around oh...9am. Haahhahahah, like that really happened! But we did manage to get out the door after packing the car all day long, with everything except the kitchen sink...at about 2pm. It literally got to the point that we couldn't organize our junk anymore, so we loaded the kids...then started to load more crap around the kids. We made a point of telling the kids there would be no bathroom breaks for the first few hours. We did make a dinner stop (since lunch time had long since passed) in Beaver. Then on again for a couple hours until Austin started to shoot projectile type vomit up near Payson. Needless to say, a clean up at the local Wal-Mart took place. Our car was sooo overpacked that we didn't even want to get clothes out for the night. So, we purchased the kids all clearance out fits at Wal-Mart to avoid having to unpack that night. Well, we decided to push our day of travel up to Logan and called the local Comfort Inn while enroute. Once we got north of Salt Lake we quickly learned that there was the most obnoxious freeway construction in full swing. What should have taken roughly an hour or so, suddenly became an additional 3 hour journey! Steve was just a jewel during the saga...and Frosty the Snow Man exists in Death Valley in July!!!
So, if the stress of the trip up wasn't enough, as we began our approach into Logan, literally 10 minutes away at 2:30am, we hear Derek in the back seat began to cough a subtle cough. Oh no we thought, please say it isn't so??? Yes, with just 10 minutes left of driving, Derek began to toss chunks all over the back of the car. All over meaning, on the church clothes, the seat, the floor, much of the food, the shoes, blankets, pillows, and every other thing in the pukes path! "Just turn around and forget the whole thing," we thought. We didn't even stop, just yelled to the back over a bunch of barf-covered screaming and tired kids, "we'll be to the motel in 10 minutes, just deal with it!"
So, after a very stressful day of illness and travel, we arrived at the Comfort Inn at nearly 3am. Sandy entered the lobby and told the poor clerk behind the desk the following without skipping a breath:
"We have been traveling all day, we have six kids, two are sick, they have been screaming and throwing up, they're all tired and we have no intentions of unpacking the car tonight. I need two port a cribs set up in the room asap and my husband is going to need whatever cleaning supplies you can provide as to clean up the back of our barf infested Suburban." Well, poor Travis didn't know what to say, he merely stated that he too came from a very large family and would be glad to help. He was the best! He brought out cleaning supplies and assisted us in getting laundry started and even folded the clean clothes after we finally got to bed. We're so glad the clerk wasn't some jerk with a chip on his shoulder. Otherwise, there surely would have been a 911 call placed that night. Most-likely from the clerk reporting two deranged adults with a bunch of screaming kids.
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