It just wasn't meant to be

Dan had the great idea to go to Busch Gardens today!  We have been wanting to take the kids for a long time, but never had.  We love amusement parks...and so do our kids!  Unfortunately, today the cards were against us.  Here's what happened today:

-The whole family (except Lincoln) got very little sleep last night.  Dan's work on-call phone went off several times, so he had to address that and didn't get much continuous sleep.  That wouldn't have been so bad, but Brynlee woke up multiple times saying her head and tummy hurt.  She's been sleeping in Carson's room since my brother is in her room while visiting us...so, Carson woke up too.  Brynlee seemed to have a fever too, so we gave her some medicine.  The two kids were up several times throughout the night...blah!

-Brynlee woke up feeling a bit better, so we decided to go to Busch Gardens still.  We knew we were pushing it, but we really wanted to go and we hoped that the excitement would distract Brynlee from not feeling so good. 

-Brynlee puked several times on the way down to Busch Gardens.  This should've made us turn around, but we decided to keep going since we were more than half way there and we had a REALLY excited 6 year old boy!

-the weather was SOOOOO hot and humid!!!  Seriously...disgustingly hot!  It was hard to not get onry in the heat.  It was also hard to keep little Lincoln out of the sun and heat.  It was miserable!!

-Brynlee wasn't 100%, but perked up for a couple hours and went on a few rides.  She normally loves rides, but after a few hours, didn't want to go on anything.  She also wasn't very hungry and only ate a few french fries and stawberries for lunch. 

-A few hours after lunch, Brynlee puked several more times in the stroller.  It was all over her!  I did my best to clean her up, but didn't put her shirt back on her, so I just held her only wearing little shorts...poor girl. She looked and felt miserable and I felt bad that we were dragging her all over the park.  We decided we better go home.  Carson was sad, so we let him go on one more ride.  Meanwhile, I held a pathetic, strawberry vomit smelling little girl, while a little pink-faced swetty baby got irritable. 

-On our way through the park, we passed by one of the big rollercoasters that Dan really wanted to go on.  The wait was only 5 minutes, so I told him to quick run and get on.  He got on the coaster, buckled in, ready to go when the workers stopped the ride and made everyone get off b/c of severe storm alerts.  He was sooo bummed!

-Then right when we got to the car, Dan went to put Lincoln in his carseat and noticed he was poopy.  He went to change him in the trunk of the van and it started to pour.  So, there we are changing a poopy baby and changing nasty vomity clothes on a little girl...all in the pouring rain!

So, it wasn't exactly the fun day that we had hoped for.  BUT, that being said...the kids were actually pretty good!  The park was super fun and we know that in different circumstances, we would've LOVED IT!!!  So, we're already planning our next trip...and this time I'm hoping for a bit cooler weather and no puking kids! 

Here are the few "happy" pictures we got today.  Brynlee did have fun on a few rides and Carson LOVED the whole park!  He was soo sad to have to leave early.  We'll be back soon!

 These next three pictures make me laugh.  Brynlee is actually pretty adventurous and has gone on a real rollercoaster at Hershey Park last year.  But, for whatever reason, she does not like these dropping rides.  She wanted to try it again today, but apparently still didn't like it...look at her face!