Friday I had a brush w/Death. I had went shopping and bought a lot of meat for grilling. It was my mom's b-day and Jimmy was working. I went and picked up the kids, asked for their help on the way home. I put Hunter in charge of unloading the car and listed off the things I needed to to. The first thing is light the grill, it has to warm up. Then I went looking for an extention chord to charge the lawn mower. I couldn't find one, i called Jimmy and he had it in the back of his car. So I decided to unload the mower from the trailer. 1st I had to untie it and unload the push mower, then I had to find the key and start the riding mower and back it off and pull it around to the plug in. Did it! Then I went back up to clean the grill. It was out. I turned it off went inside and grabbed the lighter. I turned the grill back on and was lighting the ligher around the grill, thinking that there would be gas. Well there was, just not where I was lighting. I bent down and opened the little hole, stuck the lighter in and FWHOOOOSHSHSHSHSH. PCKCPCKCPKC. I looked up and saw the flame over my right shoulder, It looked like it went over the edge of the deck. Then It was gone. Sissy was standing right next to the grill. Immediately I felt my lips start burning. I knew I was in trouble. I stood up and looked at Sissy, all she said was "Mom, that really freaked me out." All I could say was "Yeah, me too." I immediately started looking for the sunburn relief, aloe vera gel stuff. I couldn't find it anywhere. Then I really started freaking out and crying. Jayden, 5 yrs old, said "Mom, I thought you were suppose to be tough. Adults don't cry." which made me cry harder. I looked in the mirror and I looked like an old, black lady. My hair looked white and it was shriveled, My eyebrows looked black and were plastered to my skin. (they are almost gone now) I called my husband freaking out that I needed the gel and he didn't know where it was, and it exploded. He thought the lawn mower exploided, so he is TOTALLY freaking out, he hangs up on me and calls 911. Hunter brought me some spray lidocane, from the neighbors, I layed down on the bed and started spraying. Then I could hear the sirens. I didn't know they were for me until Hunter said that the Firetruck was outside of our house. They came in and assessed the situation and gave me some gel that was suppose to help with the burning. Our other neighbor arrived home and was looking after the kids. Later she told me it only took her 5 minutes to get home from the mall.
The ambulance driver came in and asked if I had put on any water on it. Which I hadn't, so he got this huge washcloth and put some water on it. Then he told me I needed to go to the hospital because I didn't have any nose hair and he thought that if the gas had gotten in my throat, it would swell up and I might have respitory problems. So, off I go to the hospital. I didn't feel like an ambulance ride, (I didn't think we could afford it,) So I had my hubby take me. When we arrived there I thought it was going to take forever, so I leaned over and told Jimmy that maybe I should I have taken the ride, they would have gotten me in sooner. But shortly after I said they they took me back to a room.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Mexico
So it has been a week since we arrived in Seattle. I thought I should write a little bit about our experience in Mexico before I forget it all.
We left Spokane January 16th around 3. Arrived at the Hotel about the same time as Perri. We waited 1/2 hour to check in. We got settled in and slept. our wake up call was 4 am ish. There was frost on the Windows of our cars, but we didn't have to drive very far to store our vehicles for a week. We only ended up paying $5 a day. (Good deal!) We made it to our flight no problems. Flew into LA and waited a long time. Perri, Jimmy and the kids walked around and got breakfast. Played on their "electrical devices." were bored out of their minds. We finally were able to board the plane for Mexico. Everyone was getting really excited. The plane ride was pretty uneventful, thank goodness. Arriving in Mexico we had to go through customs which took a while. We Finally made it to Mexico.
A little preface- I had talked to Maury (my boss) and he said that we could ride a taxi for $40, so I started looking for a cheaper taxi. Come to find out they had unionized at the airport and it cost $70 for the taxi ride to our Hotel.
After arriving at the hotel, come to find out, I made the reservation for the next day. so we spent over an hour waiting for them to find us 2 rooms. I think they were looking together. Whatever! The kids were going bananas. We got ocean views the first night. It was fun. Perri was on the ground floor we were up on the 2nd floor. We didn't care we were so tired from being up @ 4 that we just wanted food and bed. It was so time consuming and we didn't bring $1 bills to tip and we had no change, and, and, and.....It made it for a stressful situation. We could have all the "drinks" we wanted, unfortunately we don't drink. But the Virgin drinks were really good and the kids LOVED them. By the second day they were at the bar ordering their own drinks. They had a certain color band on their arms so the bartenders knew not to serve them alcohol. It worked pretty good, we would have them order our drinks so we knew they wouldn't be spiked. Because Jimmy ordered one and he said it tasted weird, so I had to taste it and, yeah, it was the good kind. Funny that he couldn't tell.
We spent the days by the pool or down in the sand by the Sea of Cortez. "The boys" Jimmy, Hunter and Kirby loved playing in the waves. Jimmy hurt his knee one day a big wave took him down and his right foot caught around his knee and he twisted it a little. The kids loved the ocean and the sand. I loved it when we took the kids to the "Day care center" they were able to swim, do crafts, ride down a water slide, watch tv, color. They made some fun crafts, bracelets, angry birds, baskets. Jimmy Perri and I went into town on Sunday. We should have taken a Taxi, I was exhausted by the time we were done. It was spendy, until the last shop we stopped and and I bought a mexican backpack and colorful school bag for $25. The first store tried to sell me one for that price. Eating buffet all week, it all seemed like the same kind of food by the time the week was over. The snack bar had hot dogs and hamburgers and then mixed up the other food. Fish, chicken, chips, salsa.
It was a mom's dream not to have to cook and clean up after for a week.
They had entertainment every night, I was so exhausted by then I just wanted to relax. We were able to go to one of the "members" shows and it was fun they had Indian dancers w/fire sticks.. hard to explain.
Monday Perri wanted to go and swim with the boys in the ocean.
To be continued....
We left Spokane January 16th around 3. Arrived at the Hotel about the same time as Perri. We waited 1/2 hour to check in. We got settled in and slept. our wake up call was 4 am ish. There was frost on the Windows of our cars, but we didn't have to drive very far to store our vehicles for a week. We only ended up paying $5 a day. (Good deal!) We made it to our flight no problems. Flew into LA and waited a long time. Perri, Jimmy and the kids walked around and got breakfast. Played on their "electrical devices." were bored out of their minds. We finally were able to board the plane for Mexico. Everyone was getting really excited. The plane ride was pretty uneventful, thank goodness. Arriving in Mexico we had to go through customs which took a while. We Finally made it to Mexico.
A little preface- I had talked to Maury (my boss) and he said that we could ride a taxi for $40, so I started looking for a cheaper taxi. Come to find out they had unionized at the airport and it cost $70 for the taxi ride to our Hotel.
After arriving at the hotel, come to find out, I made the reservation for the next day. so we spent over an hour waiting for them to find us 2 rooms. I think they were looking together. Whatever! The kids were going bananas. We got ocean views the first night. It was fun. Perri was on the ground floor we were up on the 2nd floor. We didn't care we were so tired from being up @ 4 that we just wanted food and bed. It was so time consuming and we didn't bring $1 bills to tip and we had no change, and, and, and.....It made it for a stressful situation. We could have all the "drinks" we wanted, unfortunately we don't drink. But the Virgin drinks were really good and the kids LOVED them. By the second day they were at the bar ordering their own drinks. They had a certain color band on their arms so the bartenders knew not to serve them alcohol. It worked pretty good, we would have them order our drinks so we knew they wouldn't be spiked. Because Jimmy ordered one and he said it tasted weird, so I had to taste it and, yeah, it was the good kind. Funny that he couldn't tell.
We spent the days by the pool or down in the sand by the Sea of Cortez. "The boys" Jimmy, Hunter and Kirby loved playing in the waves. Jimmy hurt his knee one day a big wave took him down and his right foot caught around his knee and he twisted it a little. The kids loved the ocean and the sand. I loved it when we took the kids to the "Day care center" they were able to swim, do crafts, ride down a water slide, watch tv, color. They made some fun crafts, bracelets, angry birds, baskets. Jimmy Perri and I went into town on Sunday. We should have taken a Taxi, I was exhausted by the time we were done. It was spendy, until the last shop we stopped and and I bought a mexican backpack and colorful school bag for $25. The first store tried to sell me one for that price. Eating buffet all week, it all seemed like the same kind of food by the time the week was over. The snack bar had hot dogs and hamburgers and then mixed up the other food. Fish, chicken, chips, salsa.
It was a mom's dream not to have to cook and clean up after for a week.
They had entertainment every night, I was so exhausted by then I just wanted to relax. We were able to go to one of the "members" shows and it was fun they had Indian dancers w/fire sticks.. hard to explain.
Monday Perri wanted to go and swim with the boys in the ocean.
To be continued....
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