Vacation

We are on vacation, but so far things aren't going great. It started out good. We left Thursday morning and stopped at the Cincinnati Zoo. The weather and the zoo were awesome! We drove to Lexington and spent the night there. The hotel was really nice (although getting 6 people to sleep in 1 room is not fun) and the boys loved swimming in the pool. We left Friday around noon. The boys weren't very fond of being in the car so long (making me really glad we weren't driving all the way to the beach this year!). Max was really fussy, Lucas wouldn't sleep and screamed a lot, Thomas kept asking how much longer. Griffin actually did pretty good. We arrived in Maggie Valley, NC around 6pm on Friday. We were tired of being in the car so we ordered pizza for dinner and stayed in the rest of the night. Yesterday was our first full day. We went to the pool, but it was way too cold for me! The boys had fun though. Mike took Thomas and Griffin back while the little boys napped. We went out for an early dinner. The food was great, but Lucas had diarrhea right when we got there and Max cried most of the time. Then we decided to head to a festival for fireworks. After finding one of the last parking spots available, we saw that Lucas had diarrhea ALL over when we were getting out of the van. So Mike took him home to bathe and change and I took the other boys into the festival. Not impressed. There were a couple of bounce houses with REALLY long lines and some food. It was very crowded and every other person was smoking (including 3 pg women and 1 woman with a newborn blowing smoke right on the baby - I try not to be judgemental, but come on!) So when Mike got back I suggested we try to find some place else to watch the fireworks and he said he thought our resort was having them so we came back to watch from our balcony. Well turns out they weren't having any, but we weren't too disappointed b/c our town had them last weekend so we didn't totally miss out. Last night Lucas was still having diarrhea and started throwing up. We had already changed our plans to go to Lake Lure for the day b/c it was supposed to rain all day, but staying in with a sick kid is really no fun! So now we are really hoping no one else gets sick and we actually do some fun stuff over the next 2 days. Here are some pictures so far.