Shortly after coming home from the appointment, Ollie took a monster nap and woke up feeling warm. He had a fever the rest of the afternoon and just generally wasn't himself. He napped more and was pretty grouchy. He pepped up every couple of hours after we gave him Tylenol- but I was seriously worried because we were leaving for Europe the next evening.
The fever carried on all night and we took him into the doctor the next morning. The doc told us to postpone our trip- and we were about to cancel until an hour before we had to leave for the airport. By then, Ollie was acting more normal, his fever had lowered to about 99 and we knew it was only a reaction from the vaccine. So in a whirlwind, we packed up, cleaned up and high tailed it to our flight. We made the check in cut off by 3 minutes. It was meant to be. The flight went really well, except that O's fever got up to 102.9 at one point, and I seriously doubted my parenting judgments. But we kept on with the Tylenol and made it to London 8.5 hours later, relatively unscathed all things considered.
We didn't have much planned for the trip except that we were going to Lisbon first thing the next morning. We spent 3 lovely days in Lisbon and then took a train south to a small town called Tavira. While we were in Tavira we rented an apartment which was great, because by then Ollie had FINALLY broken his fever (it lasted for 4 days along with a rash) and we were able to create a more homelike routine. We thought we would stay and explore the south of Portugal for at least another few days, but our nomadic travel habits got the best of us and we decided to finish off the rest of our trip in Seville, Barcelona and Paris! Our flight home was from London again so we figured we would spend an afternoon there as well. Pretty ambitious for just a week left of travels.
Anyway, we did it. And we even squeezed in a pretty cool visit to Disneyland Paris where Pete completed a lifetime achievement goal of visiting every Disneyland in the world. LOL. (I just have Tokyo left- but that was my second visit to the one in Paris.) It was hard at times and it was a whole lotta work (subways and strollers do NOT mix- except maybe in London), but I am so glad we went. Ollie had his moments like most kids, but I think he was the biggest trooper of us all. We always said we wouldn't stop traveling when we had kids. Well, we haven't and we certainly proved ourselves right. Our lives our richer for it and Ollie has some pretty cool photographs to look back on. I am so proud of all of us and happy to report that we will travel on. Next time though (whenever it may be) we will have 2 kids in tow....
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| #2 at Buckingham Palace in London. Due September 16, 2013 |
