What an ending

As I said we had a truly spectacular vacation - until Friday night. We'll get to that in a bit.

After packing up the car, Madi went for one last swim and I spent a my last bit of time chillin in a lounge chair, soaking up the sun. From there we headed over to Downtown Disney for lunch and to pick up out last few souvenirs (which we needed like a hole in the head but anyway....).

We ended up finding a great restaurant called Paradiso 37. Everything was so yummy and we had a really nice table outside on the water. And then our first rain storm hit and hit hard! We scrambled to grab our food and scurry inside to get out of the rain. By the time we were done with dessert the sun was shining in typical FL fashion.

There is an adorable new store called Little Missmatched that had fun and colorful single socks. Apparently kids these days don't need matching socks. Who knew? We hit the rest of the usual stores (World of Disney, Vinylmation, Orlando Harley to name a few) and off we went towards home around 4:30.

Everyone was pretty much exhausted and we drove through some rather severe torrential rain. So we decided it was time and stopped somewhere in Georgia for the night and man was I sure glad!

Here's the bad part....ready? We got to our room and I was feeling rather blaaah. I was exhausted, ate like a horse and drank like a fish all week. All I needed was a good nights sleep right? WRONG. I woke up around 1am sick as I can ever remember being. I had some stomach bug that had me up all night. Now what?

We were still SO far from home and I wasn't sure how I would manage the ride. I was also grateful we had stopped when we did, that it was late so Madi wasn't aware and I didn't have a plane to catch. I can't fathom anything worse then flying while I felt so awful. We debated staying another night so I could recover. By the time check out had arrived, I had nothing left in me so I figured we could give it a try. Hoping that the worst was over we hit the road.

Those of you who know me probably know you wouldn't normally catch me dead looking all disheveled in public. This was one time I didn't care! I had managed a shower and borrowed a pair of Madi's sweat pants that were too short, my socks didn't match (call me trendy I guess), slippers, no make up and hair a mess. I must say I got some rather funny looks. After a loooooong several hours I finally mustered the strength to get down some saltines and ginger ale which helped. I slept for a while in the car.

It wasn't until around 8pm that I actually ate - a baked potato and water. Yummy! But it did help and I finally feel better. Whew.

Thankfully I wasn't sick during the vacation part and no one else has what I had....yet. And let's keep it that way!!

All in all if someone was going to catch the nasty bug I'm glad it was me. I'd never want to see poor Madi or Chip feel that badly and vacation was still a success. What can you do about it anyway.

This is probably a TMI post but hey, that's how I roll. I will leave you with these oh so gorgeous pictures of me. These were hours into the ride after I felt better. Trust me when I say it was worse then this!