We have talked about taking a family trip to the mountais to go to Tweetsie Railroad for quite some time now. We finally went a couple of weeks ago and had a wonderful time! The road trip up there was quite a different story, however. We woke Kelsie up at 6am, changed her clothes while she was still half asleep, and loaded her into the car. We then stopped at Biscuitville for breakfast along the way and I handed her bites of an egg and cheese biscuit from the front seat. She ate really well, and I even thought at one point...this is probably enough, I don't want her to get sick! Well, seems I had a premonition!
We were moving along as expected with hopes to get to Tweetsie around 9am when they opened. But about an hour outside of Boone, I heard Kelsie making a strange noise and turned to find her vomiting all over herself and her car seat. Nathan pulled over on the side of the road and we began cleaning up the biggest mess I have ever seen. My poor child was covered in vomit and there were piles of it in her carseat. I was reminded at this moment that I need to keep an emergency kit in the car for times like this. All I had were a few paper towels, some baby wipes, a few Lysol wipes and a cup of water. I had a pair of pajamas to change Kelsie into but no other clothes for a day at Tweetsie. Well actually, I had a couple more pairs of pants but knowingly forgot to throw in another shirt. Nathan asked the question, "What do we do now? Go home or still try to make it to Tweetsie?" We both knew how well Kelsie remembers things and how disappointed she would be if we drove back up at our house. It would be a huge disappointment. So as we stood on the side of the road for 20 minutes cleaning up this horrific mess, we discussed what to do next.
So what did we do? I cleaned up Kelsie and got her changed into her PJs. Nathan cleaned out the car seat as best as he could. I found a plastic grocery bag, closed up all vomit covered items and tossed it in trunk. We got Kelsie back in her seat but she had to ride the rest of the way in just the shell of with no liner. We drove to his family's lake house in Taylorsville which was an hour away and got everything washed up. We left 2 hours later and finally made it to Tweetsie around 1pm.
We had a wonderful time and it was definitely a day we will never forget. Kelsie got to ride a real train, go on the ferris wheel, ride the chair lift and the carousel, feed the animals, and eat lots of cotton candy! :) We also dressed up in costumes for an old western photo and she thought was really funny too. When I put the little saloon girl dress on her, she posed in front of the mirror and said "my wedding dress"!
Here are some photos:
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