9/6/14

So the night before we are supposed to leave I have to go to work and our son is at home with a 103 degree fever. I felt so bad for him and my husband but luckily it didn't last more than a few hours and he slept through it. When he woke up at 3am and was feeling better he got to have some tea and lemonade (a rare treat for our son who only gets milk and water). When I got home my husband showed me a rash he was developing and he definitely still had a fever but I didn't recheck it since we aren't the tylenol giving parents anyways. Long story short his rash turned out to be hand, foot, and mouth disease, a virus that a lot of kids get. So, needless to say, we had to delay our trip a few days to let our boy recover and mostly just for the comfort of everyone. Paul was bummed but of course didn't want to go with our son not feeling well. We read that they can be contagious for a week so we didn't want to cruise up there too soon just to be stuck on the boat since we obviously don't want to spread this to anyone…that is exactly how I am sure my son caught it. So we planned to leave Sunday night to meet them Monday at Santa Cruise Island. We thought about leaving Saturday night but realized we would have to miss the party anyways (since he's contagious) and it would be a lot of sailing back to back. 

Then when we went to start loading the boat up and do some more cleaning the inverter wasn't working and we can't be going anywhere without that. Paul messed around with it a little and talked to some of the guys at our marina with no luck. Then, miraculously, when Paul went back that night it was working again. So we obviously need to get that looked at along with the refrigeration sometime soon. It just never ends fixing this boats problems.

Then we checked the weather, thanks to the nice guys at our marina reminding us, and it says their may be strong storms where we are going since we are getting all this leftover hurricane stuff from down south. So we decided that we should just not go. We were both so bummed but with Oliver still being contagious and the storms it just didn't make sense for us to try to force this. 

We were supposed to be going on a road trip in October so we just went on that instead. We went to Vegas, Hoover Dam, Grand Canyon and Sedona. It was a really fun trip and Oliver did awesome in the car. 

So we will sail for a week or more in early October when we were supposed to be doing the road trip and decide then if we are staying or going this year.