We're back!

We left for California on Sunday afternoon with one girl recovering from the stomach bug and everyone else doing OK. Our flight from here to Houston was by far the worst either of us had ever experienced. You know it is bad when the flight attendants from the previous flight are even complaining! The sky was clear, but the wind was strong, and it bumped that little plane all over the place. Austin begged me not to kiss the ground if we made it back down. I was so scared! We survived but then our second flight was delayed due to mechanical problems, so by the time we got to the hotel in CA it was 11:45pm, or 1:45am TX time. Whew!

While all that was going on, our Gloria was home experiencing her turn with the stomach bug unbeknownst to us. :-( My baby's first time to throw up & I wasn't there to comfort her. Austin's mom also came down with it on Monday. Poor thing. She said Allia took good care of her though. ;-)

Our trip began with a beautiful Southern California day. We had breakfast together, then Austin was off to his conference. Stephen & I hit the gym and then took a loooong nap back in the room. I did some leisure reading while I waited for him to wake up. Austin finished early, so we went exploring a little and then to a very nice dinner. It was the perfect day....
until the stomach bug hit
ICK
By midnight we were taking turns running to and from the bathroom.
Miraculously, Stephen slept until 5am despite the racket we were making, which was a huge blessing. That was just when I was starting to feel slight relief.
Let me tell you, if you and your hubby are going out of town and planning to get a stomach bug while you are there, stay at the Hyatt. They bent over backwards to help us get what we needed, including some medicine that pretty much saved us from a trip to the hospital!

So we spent Tuesday and Wednesday in bed recovering. We had scored a free movie Monday evening for having to switch rooms due to A/C problems. So we ordered room service, watched our movie and just hung out together trying to get better. It was very restful, just not quite what we had in mind!!! (At least we didn't have to clean anything this time!)

Thursday, Austin was able to give his talk which had been rescheduled from Tuesday afternoon, and everything else went pretty smoothly except to find out that Dad was in the hospital again for his knee as of Wednesday. Mom didn't tell us because she figured we had enough to worry about being sick and all. Apparently he has a serious staff infection but is doing much better and came home from the hospital yesterday.

So, was it worth it? Yes. Would I do it again? Probably. Do we feel a little like we were under attack from the evil one? Youbetcha!