Back Home from Lake Tahoe

Good morning! Well we made it home Tuesday night about 7:30pm. We had a fun time other then N getting a double ear infection. We arrived there around dinner time on Friday. The drive was great. The weather was nice and warm so we were able to stop at the park half way there and eat lunch and let the kids run around. Saturday we went up and played at the playground and went and looked around inside. Then came back a little later to play racquetball (N and M) and swim. E is just like Aunt L! She gets the purple lips and then shivers but does not want to get out! You ask her if she is cold and she will tell you no. :-) We relaxed during the afternoon. Then that evening M and S made dinner (forgot the cord for the fryer so ended up doing that on the stove....that was an experience itself!). After dinner we took the kids up to the arcade to play games. They loved it. Then we came back and N wanted to take a shower so bad b/c he had watched daddy in there. It was a shower that had a shower head on each side. So we got them in there and they loved it. E was okay about it all but N could have stayed in there forever!

Sunday morning we went and played again. Then went back and everyone got ready to go down into town. There were a bunch of little shops going out of business b/c the town had bought the land to build a convention center in the next couple of years. I found a nice vest for cheap! But didn't find anything for the kids or M. Ate lunch down there. Then home, went and rented skis for the kids and then down for naps. E refused to sleep so she and I stayed up. :-) Then we went down into Mendin (sp?) and ate dinner. During dinner N told me his ear hurt. I was thinking it was the pressure and told him I would give him some tylenol when we got back up the hill if it still hurt. Well it did. So gave him some and then we all sat down and watched Little Mermaid. At the end of that is when N lost it with the ear pain. So S and N were up most of the night...think a total of 4 hrs of sleep (not in a row). S called and found out about an urgent care down the hill. (We were staying at the top of the hill.) We went and got in 2nd (they opened at 8am). Found out he had a double ear infection...the other one was just starting. So got perscription for amoxicillan and numbing ear drops. Well pharmacies around there don't open until 9am. So had to wait 15 min to open then took 25 min to fill. ugh! By that time N was crying and screaming in the car. So I put the numbing drops right in. Well come to find out they sting at first. So N screamed most of the way back up the hill to the room. But he insisted that he wanted to go skiing still. And E really wanted to. So got N calmed down and asked again and yes he wanted to go. So dressed them and loaded up.

Now finding a place to ski for kids was an adventure in itself! Let's just say that the people at Heavenly didn't know what they were talking about. The first place was closed, the next place didn't have the magic carpet and the rope tow was for ski school...atleast that is what the signs said mainly. And no one told us at the top of the mountain was a magic carpet! (found that out later from D and C when we saw them at the room) So M put on regular boots and he just took them up and down the side next to the rope tow. N did it once but wanted to do it his way. :-) In the picture he is pushing M away. E loved it. She went down twice and guess she was saying Whooo Hooo. :-) Then since M and S had spent $ on a lift ticket b/c M was going to try to ski and S was told she needed one to do the kids hill with the kids and we couldn't return them. We went up the gondola. Loved it! It was very pretty. Then we were going to hang out at the top (sledding was up there) but N fell down the metal stairs and was crying so that was pretty much the end of that. But hey he had done pretty well with ear infections and lack of sleep. So we headed back down. That is where the pictures come from. N asleep and E looking out. We got back to the room and kids went straight to sleep. E slept for about an hour and N slept for about 3. Then dinner and relaxing around the place. It started snowing about an hour after we got back and didn't stop until the morning. It was pretty to watch and boy did it cover fast. Figures they get a ton of snow the night before we are to leave! We got out of there okay...ended up backing back down a hill that we couldn't get all the way up and going out a different way but we did it. The trip home was just fine and the kids did really well.

N is doing much better with the ear infection. Took him back in b/c early Tuesday morning there was a little blood. But dr found no blood inside the ear yesterday. But did find a big ball of hard wax in there and it was still infected pretty badly. So switch medicine and for the first morning N has said his ear doesn't hurt! Yea! It just threw us all for a loop b/c N has maybe had one ear infection when he was a baby and that is it! It's usually E that gets them with her tubes.

Hope everyone has a wonderful spring break! And L & A have fun in Japan!!!