Well we took a quick trip to San Jose with plans to renew Pookie’s passport that is about to expire. Unfortunately we didnt realize that we would need her birth certificate for a renewal so we will be making another quick trip in about a week or so, haha! Regardless, it was a fun little weekend full of adventure as usual.
We planned to take the 2pm ferry on Sunday. We got to the ferry 20 minutes early to find that everyone else in town planned to take the 2pm ferry as well. It was full. LLENO. No more room and the car line was wrapped around the corner waiting for the 5pm ferry. Yes, they were all parked and sitting there for three hours to wait for the next ferry. This was not an option for us since the lil ones would be bored out of their minds and in turn undoubtedly cause us to lose our minds. So we opted to drive the long way there, or as Sophie calls it, the curly road (b/c it is windy and typically someone ends up puking.
The drive was mostly uneventful and fun for the first half. We got to our ice cream shop stop and everyone jumped out to get their ice cream and enjoy a quick 20 minute break from the car. Sophie got cotton candy and cake flavored ice cream. She thought is was delicious, it was vile. Little did we know it was not nearly as vile as it was about to be coming back out in the form of projectile vomit 45 minutes later. Vomit was EVERYWHERE. It was bright blue with chunks floating in it. It was on my bag, on the seat, dripping into the car seat, all over her clothes, down her undies, on the floor, seriously i think the only thing that managed to escape it was her hair. Amazingly she was really upbeat about the puke sitch. When she was done vomiting (for the first time) all she said was, “See Dada, next time mommy is going to drive. I told you that you were going to make me puke”. We pulled over and shoved all puke items into a plastic bag, Watered down and changed little Pooks and went back on our way in our freshly scented puke mobile. It took about 20 minutes of driving and round two hit.This time i was much more prepared with an emptied out tupperware (aka the puke bin). She contained all of it into the bin (which was later chucked out at the hotel b/c the scent just wouldn’t leave after excessive cleaning, and quite honestly anytime i would have gone to use it i would have thought of puke).
After all the puke episodes we got stuck in about an hours worth of traffic. Bumper to bumper traffic inside the puke mobile. I have no idea how everyone remained in such good spirits and thank goodness for that b/c vile puke stench, bad attitudes, and bumper to bumper traffic would probably be an ugly trio.
Alas, we arrived all smiles and the girls favorite lady, Lisette, was there waiting with a big hug! She also surprised the girls and left little toys on the bed in our hotel room for them :). Everyone showered, Will depuked the car, we ordered some dinner, snuggled and watched a movie. The total travel time was over 7 hours. It could be a record for longest San Jose drive. All part of the adventure, and still super fun! Here are some pics of the girls in the car (pre puke)
And the ice cream that did her in…
Gifts at the hotel
