A non-existant Camping Trip.... But fun anyway!

So here's the story....

Since we had such a great experience on our last camping trip, we decided to go ahead and plan another one. We pre booked a campsite at a new campground we'd never been to near some fun lakes. We pulled the trailor out into the driveway and started getting ready for our fun trip.

The day before I worked all day long getting food prepared, shopping done, packing done and lots of laundry. Everything was set. Well, that night Sadie woke up in the middle of the night with a major fever. Oh great, here we go again...no camping trip!

So the next morning, with pretty much 3 hours of sleep, I got up and took her to the Dr. in hopes it was just a ear infection or something, so we could get the antibiotic and be on our way. After 2 hours in the Dr.'s office and several tests later...nothing...nada...Just a virus.

So I took Sadie home and put her to bed and called Matt at work to let him know our trip wasn't going to happen. Unfortunately, because we prebooked our campsite, we couldn't get all of our money back. But oh well, I wasn't going to camp with a sick child...I've learned from too many bad experiences...it's not worth it.

So we stayed home....and Sadie in her bed. You could really tell when the ibuprofen was working and when it wasn't....

Here is Sadie without medication...

And here she is with her medication....BIG DIFFERENCE!!

When I told the boys that we couldn't go camping, Spencer was understanding and knew that it wasn't her fault for getting sick. Ethan however, was devastated. He cried and was so upset. He really wanted to go camping so bad!!! So Matt told him that they could sleep in the trailor in the driveway just for fun before we put it away. So the boys got ready for bed and headed out to the trailor. They ate snacks and played UNO, just like camping. Then they spent the night in the driveway.

So after a couple of days of Sadie confined to her bed....(and Mommy confined to the house) we all needed to get out and do something fun. Sadie was feeling much better and didn't have a fever anymore, so we decided to take the family up to Snowbird to spend the day. Boy was it fun!!!

When we first got there, we were walking up toward the ticket booth and a guy overheard us talking about how we were going to buy the all day passes for the kids. He stopped us and said, Hey I've got 3 passes here that I can't use because we are leaving to go back to California today, do you want to buy them? We were going to save $25 by doing that, so sure!!! We didn't have enough cash with us, so we walked back to the car to grab the checkbook. When we came back with the checkbook, he handed us the tickets and said don't worry about it. I tried to clarify...Are you sure you don't want the money? He said oh yeah, have an awesome day! And just like that he disappeared. Matt and I could not believe it. $75 worth of tickets had just been placed in our laps. What a blessing. On the way up the canyon we were trying to figure out how this fun filled day was going to fit into our budget. So because of the extreme kindness of a complete stranger, we were able to enjoy a fun family day without the financial stress. So Mister California guy...if you're out there...Thank you very much from the bottom of our hearts....we appreciate you!!!!

What a fun day we had....we started at the trampolines, where Ethan learned how to do a back flip!!!

Spencer loved the trampolines too, but was a little nervous about trying the back flip...

Then it was off to the Alpine slide....oh what fun!!!! I thought Sadie would freak out, but she actually LOVED riding on my lap and the second it was over wanted to go AGAIN!!! (of course I was taking the pictures, so I don't have a picture of Sadie and I on the slide)

Then it was off to the TRAM ride to the top off the summit. 11,000 feet and a breathtaking view!

A little Bull riding anyone? Spencer and Ethan went for a ride and then Matt went ahead and tried out his skills...they all did great! 8 seconds baby!!

Then it was off up the Peruvian lift to go see the "tunnel". The skies were looking a little ominous, but we only had a few sprinkles.

Here we are inside the tunnel, which was SUPER cool! And when I say cool I mean FREEZING! It's kind of a shock on your body when you go from 80 degrees to 50. But it was worth the few minute walk through the center of the mountain to get to the most amazing valley view.

Snowbird knows how to name their lifts and trails...check out the names below...

So after all this fun, we decided to try out the climbing wall. Spencer and Ethan are both amazing climbers...

Matt is a great climber too. And after a little prodding, I decided to try it out. It was fun!!!


And finally, to end the day, Matt rode the zip line...not before we all had this AMAZING view of the Snowbird valley...

And here's our highflying Daddy on the zipline!!!

We had a really great weekend despite all the sickness...but this week, the sickness has unfortunatly spread...Spencer missed 4 days of school and Mommy wasn't feeling so hot either! We all seem to be on the mend now, and hopefully it will stay that way!!!