Sunday, July 22, 2007

Adventures in Tennessee

So, a few days ago I alluded to an adventure we had involving a missed exit, various pungent bodily fluids and no hotel rooms available. This is what can happen when deciding to drive to the NEDC and continue on for a family vacation and why it probably will not happen again.

On our way back up the interstate from Chattanooga to Nashville, about an hour from our hotel (or so we thought) Mr. Cubby struggled with a very busy diaper. This set off a screaming fit that rendered him inconsolable unless taken out of his car seat and held, which is against the law to do if you're in a minivan (or car) unless you're in Mexico, which I've been told has no laws requiring child restraint - in case you were wondering. We stopped and changed him, hoping this would relieve his discomfort but it was to no avail. The screaming continued.

So Mr. Cubby has this thing that used to happen before he started taking Previcid. At night, when I'd put him down for bed, if he wasn't completely asleep, he'd wake up and scream so hard that he would vomit. We hadn't given him the Previcid for that day and about ten minutes into the post-diaper change crying jag, he vomited all over himself and his car seat.

We did what we could to contain the spill with baby wipes and arrived at the Embassy Suites, Nashville Airport with our nearly naked stenchified baby only to be turned away. They had just sold their last room (to be fair, we didn't have a reservation). John asked them to call around to several other nearby properties, all were full. He finally settled on a Ramada Suites a few miles away. When Will and I walked into our room there the first thing Will said was, "Hey guys, this is just like Russia." Needless to say, we got a refund and left the hotel.

So, after leaving Knoxville at 5pm, we arrived at our hotel (The Drury Inn) in Nashville at 9:30 (10:30 Knoxville time).

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