Vacation!

So hard to come back to work after vacation. I have 2007 budget (like I’m supposed to know what will happen next year? If I knew that, I’d be playing the stock market from my beach front estate, not sitting in a warm office, blogging instead of working!), executive reviews (high level summaries of the things I work on, plus a few others because that boss has been out sick all month), and trying to prepare for a business trip next month. I need another vacation already!

Vacation was awesome. We spent most of Sunday and Monday at the beach as it was very hot in RI. D took a surfing lesson on Monday, C boogie boarded and body surfed and played in the sand, and I watched the surfing lesson, and helped C do the boogie boarding and body surfing. Except Monday I ended up with some sort of sinus/ear infection (and no, that wasn’t the trip to the walk in clinic) so slept all afternoon while C played with her cousins. Tuesday was a repeat of Monday (beach in the morning, sleep all afternoon).

By Wed I started to feel better, and with the weather turning cooler and cloudy, we went shopping in the morning. Wed afternoon found us meeting up with C’s best friend L and her parents at their beach place about 15 minutes south of where we were staying. The vacations were planned independently, so it was a happy coincidence that we were on vacation at the same time. Little Miss Independent (C.) kept wandering off on the sand dunes and trying to get L to follow her.

Thursday we had planned to take the ferry to Block Island (which is a small island off the shore of RI, very cute – shops and restaurants and beaches) but with the tropical storm heading to the Cape (Cape Cod) the ferry company couldn’t guarantee we’d get back that afternoon. If there weren’t three kids involved we probably would have gone anyway (we’re crazy like that), but faced with the prospect of potentially being stuck with no hotel room and a whiny 8 year old, decided to go to Newport instead. No mansions this time, just some shopping, lunch at an awesome restaurant (if you get a chance, go here!) and a short walk along the Cliff Walk. Then more beach with the rough surf in the afternoon. C was scared, but D and my brother stayed out boogie boarding for a couple hours.

Friday was Block Island day. Except on the ferry ride over, I notice C scratching the back of her neck. Looking more closely, there’s a bullseye pattern to a bug bite (which, being from CT, it gets drilled into your head that that is a symptom of a tick bite). Seeing as a couple hours wouldn’t make much difference, we spend some time shopping and lunching, get caught in a torrential downpour, and take the ferry back to go to the walk in clinic. Who were very nice, but couldn’t find anything to say definitively it was a tick bite. I have a slip for bloodwork in two weeks (apparently it takes that long for anything to show up in the blood). They didn’t want to start antibiotics because it would be a three week course and if they could avoid that, they would. So, now we wait. I’m not good with waiting. The slight consolation is that the redness went away overnight and she’s not showing any other symptoms. But I am still taking her for the blood work.

Saturday night was Larry the Cable Guy at Mohegan Sun. I won a few dollars playing slots, so that was good. And now we're back, trying to get back into the swing of things.