The last night in Moab was ok. Bacon didn’t throw up anymore but he wasn’t feeling really well either. Since he was doing better we decided to continue on our way to the next stop… Durango, CO via The Four Corners.
THE FOUR CORNERS:
This is a nice little place. The monument is the only thing there, surrounded by little shops to buy souvenirs. It’s a very clean, nicely kept place and the vendors were very nice. The boys LOVED it because it had ramps and walk ways they could run around on and protective rails they could climb on. They didn’t really care about anything else. They got to be out of the car running around free, so they were happy and content.
When you arrive there are 4 big walls, one in each state, with an opening to get into the monument. Those four walls house the vendors which have mostly jewelry, arrow heads, dream catchers and other cool Native American things for sale. There is a sidewalk that forms a square. From the corners of where the walls would meet if everything was enclosed, is a sidewalk leading to the middle where the 4 states meet. Each side has a plaque which talks about that particular state. Also there are the 4 flags in each state and a state seal. Each has it’s own little seating area and ramp to see the seal from higher up. It is quite a pretty little place
We got a bunch of pictures, bought a few souvenir things and then left. It was nice.
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From the parking lot. You can see the flags inside.
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Thankful for the safety railings.
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| Attempted boys only picture. Someone doesn't follow directions very well. |
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Family picture!
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| Tim in four places at once. Totally impressive! :) |
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Everything is something to climb and play on.
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I'm in four places at once. Impressive! :)
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The picture above is the very center. This picture and the following three pictures
will show you what it says on the edge of that metalic circle.
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This is what it looks like all around the monument.
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Then it was off to Durango and Urgent Care. Although Bacon had NOT thrown-up again, he still wasn’t himself. He had been pulling at his ears (look at the pictures from part 2 in the jeep). He still had a fever. So we checked into our hotel and off I took him to Urgent Care. The verdict? An ear infection, again. It was his 3rd in 6 weeks. We hung out at the local Walgreens while they tried to find the medication the Urgent Care doctor had prescribed. Finally the pharmacist just called and got a new prescription. The pharmacy helper told me it was really gross and give him something with it. Great, on vacation, with a sick kid who has to take gross medicine. I thought the augmentin was bad but this stuff was worse.
We got back to the hotel and gave him a dose. He promptly threw-up because of course I forgot to give him something to take with it. We cleaned that mess up, got a clean set of blankets and while we were figuring out where to have dinner, Bacon, who was running around like a lunatic, tripped over a backpack and slid face first a few inches on the carpet. He stood up crying and bleeding. He’d got a horrible rug burn on his lip. He finally calmed down and I headed out with the older boys to get some dinner. I dropped everything off and took our clothes to the laundry mat a block away. We had planned to ride an old steam train up the mountains and Pach needed pants. I got everything I was going to wash done and headed back to the hotel where boys were laying bed watching TV, well the older boys anyway. Bacon was still running around like a lunatic. We finally got him settled down and he threw-up again on the bed. Nice. We pulled everything off the bed and hunkered down for the night. Tim, once again, slept at the end of the older boys bed and I snuggled with a very hot and toasty Bacon. He did ok once he settled down but then there was this popping noise and that drove me crazy. I didn’t get much sleep.
FRIDAY morning Tim said, “We are going home today. Bacon is sick and I’m done.” So I called and got our train tickets taken care of so we can go back and then we packed up the car and headed home. Probably no need to say this but being home felt really good. I mean, it always feels nice to be home when you’ve been gone but this time it felt really, really nice!
All in all it was a nice trip and mostly a vacation. It just would have been better if everyone had been healthy!
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