Going to Denver...Day 1

Last Wednesday we left for our trip to Denver, Logan and Great Basin National Park. It was going to be crazy!

I spent the morning cleaning the house, packing and keeping the kids occupied so they didn't ask me every 5 minutes "when are we leaving?!". After I finished teaching piano lessons I loaded the kids in the van and we were off to pick up Bryan.

We had a hotel reservation in Grand Junction, Colorado, so we only had to drive 6 hours. We left St. George around 3:15 and made good time to Grand Junction. We checked into the hotel and went to bed.

A little after midnight I woke up to Ethan screaming and crying. Bryan was trying to calm him down but he was in so much pain that he was just hysterical. Ethan had a really bad sore throat and his ear was hurting. So we logged onto the internet to try and find someplace to take him to a doctor. There isn't much in Grand Junction so I ended up getting dressed and taking him to the emergency room of a local hospital.

It was empty when we got to the ER so they took Ethan right back while I filled out paperwork. By the time I was finished they had already checked him out and taken a Rapid Strep Test. A few minutes later the doctor came in to tell me that Ethan did have a slightly red throat but that it didn't look like strep throat to him. They gave him a dose of Tylenol with Codine, for the pain, and gave me a prescription for a Z-Pack. The doctor wasn't sure what was wrong but he wanted to stop whatever it was. Then we left the hospital for the hotel.

Ethan is pretty funny on Tylenol with Codine! He was so happy to see Bryan and kept talking and hugging Courtney (who was asleep). It was funny but he finally settled in for a good nights rest.