Great Wolf Lodge...and Adventures in Driving...

Okay...Here it is, our second trip to Great Wolf Lodge. I need to first apologize to Tammy - whom I did not call while we were in T.C. - I do apologize. As you will read, it was quite the eventful trip and it seemed as though time got away from me... Please forgive me :)

We had dropped the dog at the kennel and were headed up to Traverse City for our mid-winter break vacation. We were about an hour into our trip after breakfast at Mc Donald's when Mary (who is riding in the third row of the van ) tells us that she needs to take a potty break because her tummy wasn't feeling well. Bill stops at a gas station -- Mary doesn't feel much better after taking a potty break - but we progress up the road. Keep in mind that she had a cinnamon melt and a sweet tea for breakfast (I know - but it was vacation) and that she has been so excited to go on this vacation ). She leans forward in her seat and begins to throw -up repeatedly. Bill says "Is she puking?" and I'm desperately searching for a bag or something - anything - to catch the puke in. Bill pulls off an on/off ramp. I clean up the puke -- we ask Mary if she wants to go home . "No..I'm fine." She's white as a sheet. Bill and I look at each other with the "should we turn around" look - but we keep going. Keep in mind that Bill's dad and his girlfriend were already on their way to meet us at GWL. Mary falls asleep and we keep on driving. We are about 15 minutes from GWL when the puking starts again. Unbelievable. Well, at the point we were literally past the point of no return, so we kept trecking up to the lodge. Once we got there and Mary got calmed down from all her excitement, she made a miraculous recovery. She saw "Pa Pa and Pat" and she was happy and fine. She was swimming and eating pizza - and you would have never known she was sick. It was CRAZY. Who throws up because of excitement????? I truly hope she can outgrow this...because Bill has an adversion to puke --- and unfortunately, because I am 'the MOM' - I end up cleaning it up. I'll post a few pics with this - and more tomorrow.....