Vacation: Day Seven

After reading yesterday's insanely long post, I've decided to go easy on you today and make this short and sweet. The day started with me waking up on the wrong side of the bed and being a total "you-know-what" to everyone who spoke to me. Sorry! And it ended with us leaving a restaurant with a screaming four-year-old, and a near trip to the emergency room. Let's review, shall we.

We made it to the beach, I was in a foul mood, we swam, we played, we ate, we went back to the condo to get ready for dinner. See, I told you it was gonna be short. The owner of our condo had left us a gift card for a local restaurant called Hurricanes, so we headed out to enjoy it.

And enjoy it, we did NOT! Eli started screaming with an ear ache. Eric and were skeptical and chalked it up to being overly tired. We took turns walking the kids on the beach so that they would not disturb the other paying customers. Finally, Eric left and took Eli home while I waited on the food.

Ellie and I ate with Clay and Mandi before hitting up the pharmacy. By the time we made it back to the condo, Eli was bleeding from the ears...never good. After talking with the on-call pediatrician and a triage nurse from the children's hospital in Tampa, we decided to wait it out.

Never a dull moment, ya'll!

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