Well, our trip wasn’t exactly what we expected. It appears that Abigail was coming down with something when we left. She had some trouble on the plane as we entered Albuquerque and had trouble all that evening. On Thursday I got up and went to the convention center and she still wasn’t doing well. When I got back from the convention center Kathy and Abigail were gone. Shortly after that I got a call from Kathy telling me that she had taken Abigail to the ER. I got a cab as soon as I could and headed over. Abigail was on an IV and the diagnosis was dehydration brought on by the altitude and illness. She was in the ER all of Thursday afternoon getting fluids and something to help her stomach. When we got back to the hotel she started to perk up.
On Friday she started off with a headache but recovered after some Motrin. She was pretty normal the rest of the day and we went to the Aquarium and Old Town. I went to some more sessions, and we went back to Old Town for an authentic Mexican dinner. Kath had mole sauce and really liked it. I had a very good enchilada.
Saturday took us to the Zoo and Sandia Peak. The Zoo was OK and Abigail got some more animals. Kathy and I agreed that we could have gone without visiting Sandia Peak. The ride up made us a little wobbly and we spent all of 15 minutes on the peak at 10,000 + feet. We did get some cool pictures and it was neat to see the mountain and surrounding desert. We didn’t spot any animals and that bummed Abigail out, but she got some more trinkets which seemed to make up for it. We got some good pizza for dinner.
Sunday saw Abigail back to being her old self and we spent the entire day flying. Abigail had much better flights and they showed Madagascar on the plane, that made her whole trip. Atlanta had a big rainstorm that delayed us by about 45 minutes, but we made it to Akron only 30 minutes behind schedule. We were home by 8:45 and Abigail was in bed by 10. She proceeded to sleep until 10 on Monday. I guess she was really wiped out.
Kathy and I agree that our next trip is going to be some packaged deal to Universal Studios or Disney World so that we don’t have to worry about anything.