While in Athens, Becky came to watch the girls for us. I was a little worried about giving them one day to warm up to her, but they did just fine. In fact, Kate never asked about us and Jane quit asking about us on the second day! Becky took the girls swimming, hiked up to a castle ruin, and helped out with Kate's lantern festival at kindergarten (St. Martin's Day).
Cologne
Day 2: As we were pulling into the parking garage, Kate complained of tummy pain. We didn't really bother with her complaints, because they are often. As soon as I pulled her out of the car, she threw up breakfast. We moved our car a little farther down. Bahaha. We continued on. We weren't to the Cologne Chocolate Factory. Super fun! and yummy!
We continued on. We walked through the Christmas markets and the Dom and the souvenir shops. Then we got in the car and traveled to Amsterdam. Not even 30 minutes into the drive, the tire goes flat. Bryan and Becky quickly switched to the spare and we continued on. We stopped at a nearby shop, but they didn't have our tires. So we drove very slowly to Amsterdam.
Day 3: And the next morning, we bought new tires and drove into the city center. We were pretty tight on time, as I had scheduled the Anne Frank House tour. But we made it (or at least they just let us slide by). Thank goodness!
Rachel holding Myra, Bryan, Kate asleep in stroller, and Becky
Myra finally warmed up to Bryan.
No throw up today...well, until that night. Jane threw up right after dinner and pretty much all night. I couldn't wait to take a shower in the morning.
Day 4: The next day we went to Haarlem and Zaanse schans. We got to go into the Corrie ten Boon house, but it was definitely not exciting. Children under 4 years should not be aloud and it would be a lot better not to have to hear to whole story of her life. I just wanted to see the hiding place behind the wall. Afterwards, it rained and hailed like crazy. For quite some time too. I have no pictures of this day, but when we finally got home and I pulled Kate out of the car, she threw up all over me. Blah!
Bryan, Jane, and Kate sleeping in a royal bed!
We drove back down to Cologne and stopped at a playground. Poor Myra threw up at the park. And again at the restaurant. And again at the airport. Rachel decided to wait until she was picked up by her husband in London. And Jane decided to throw up in the car on the way home to Parsberg. Oh,... and we went an hour the wrong direction!
Although, you might be thinking this must have been an awful trip, it really wasn't. It was definitely memorable. Lots of laughs and lots of clean ups as were continued on!
2 comments:
I tell people about our trip and they say, "oh, tat must have been terrible." And I tell them, "you know, it really wasn't. We had a good time." Thanks for planning and for your great attitudes during chaos!
I'm amazed that you could have fun with all that throwing up. I was wondering what could be causing all that, and if they all had a virus. Then I thought "Maybe it could just be motion sickness." I remember being in a rental car in California when the 5-year old I was traveling with threw up in the back seat. It was the one time in my life that I was traveling with a child and didn't have a complete spare set of clothes with me. (We were about an hour away from our hotel on a day trip from Los Angeles to King's Canyon) We had to stop at a truck stop and wash clothes and clean the car. We put the child in his Dad's T-shirt and everyone looked at us like we were nuts. He was fine the rest of the day and we had a great time, but we could not get the smell out of the carpet. I was sure the car rental place was going to charge us a huge cleanup fee, but they didn't.
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