The Brooks Stories: Family trip to Florida

We took a family trip to Florida back in August. Every time we go out of town with or without Aves she gets sick. It's usually her ears, but this trip turned into something more serious. We left on a Saturday late in the afternoon and headed to Austin's parents house in Henderson where we stayed the night. We stopped in Tyler to get dinner and Aves didnt want anything. If you know her at all she doesnt skip a meal. She then said her tummy hurts, so I immediatly took her temp, 103.7. SERIOUSLY! So we found the first place to get something for her tummy. As soon as we got to Austin's parents off to the potty she went. She woke up all night having to go to the potty. She only threw up once Sunday morning but continued to have to go poopy. She was acting fine so we waited a couple hours and then got on the road. All the way to Mississippi she would roll in a ball and cry complaining her tummy hurt and we stopped a dozen times for her to poopy. I just knew the little virus she had was gonna spread to all of us throughout the week. We decided to spend the night in Mississippi and Aves slept all night so I thought she was on the way to recovery. Boy was I wrong. When we got to Florida I told Austin we needed to take her to a walk in clinic and he kept telling me she was fine. So after spotting blood in her poop, I said I am taking her. We ended up in the emergency room with a dehydrated little one that had to have fluids, x-rays and blood taken. We had to stay at the hospital until late that evening and was sent home with some medication. We were informed after arriving home she had Salmonella posioning. Aves still had a wonderful time even though for the first several days she had many bathroom breaks throughout the day.

Despite the little uh oh, we still had a great week spenting most of our days by the pool since Aves was not a fan of the sand. Austin's mom and I enjoyed a morning of shopping at the outlets and bought the best carmeal apple ever. Austin and I enjoyed a date night in Seaside one night while his parents watched Aves for us. We all had dinner looking out over the ocean, and we took Aves to Fundpuckers where she got to see the alligators, and got a ladybug balloon. We also, went dolphin watching, which Aves loved. Even though we had a little scare, we all had a great time and I'm looking for to our next family vacation.