Late Night Drug Run...

Can you see the wild look of desperation in our eyes?!!! Why did we move to this crazy state that requires you to have a Rx to get sudafed? ABSOLUTELY rediculous!!! Since ALL...and I mean ALL of the children have been sick going on two weeks, we've lost all sanity and decided to pack the kids up and make a late night run to Vancouver Washington to get the blessed childrens cold medicine with sudafed in it...we promised AKA bribed them with treats and a movie in the car....perhaps we should've taken it as a sign when the DVD player wouldn't work.....

Autumn and Carter ready for a mini road trip
YES...we should have taken the broken DVD player as a sign, but we ignored it...however we were wise enough to not ignore a burnt-out headlight bulb...while I beat on the DVD player Brook and John ran into Fred Meyer to buy a new bulb...of course, where do we choose to change it...in the parking lot....that's right...it's dark and we're changing a bulb in the parking lot...the hulabaloo we encountered trying to get on the road SHOULD have been a HUGE blinking SIGN... "This is not a good idea!...Turn back now!"

Oh, yes, these kiddies needed the drugs...or is it more for the desperate sleepless parents??

Poor John, being the only adult in the group without hips, he got nominated as the back, back seat companion to the babies...OK, so we bribed him with some ice cream...it always works!!

After finally making it accross the border, we got turned around and around looking for a store with a pharmacy, finally we made it to a walmart, we raced to the cold section...and alas...they DID NOT HAVE CHILDREN'S SUDAFED...we asked and asked if they had it, but the crazy foof haired girl with a disgusting amount of piercings informed us with a blank stare and monotone voice that she thought they had adult sudafed...LAME! When we got back to the car Abrianna was BURNING up with a fever, so we took her shirt off, found a dirty old rag in the van soaked it in water wrapped it around her neck, had her chug some ice water, and raced off to find the next store...we would not end until we could declare mission complete! We finally made it to Walgreens who had just what we needed...one difficult pharmacist...a dose of Motrin and a potty stop later we were succesfully back on the road and headed home!

Of course, the excitement of the eve was not quite complete until Parker popped up with a lava hot fever just a few blocks from home...quite the ordeal I tell you when you've got three adults and a passleload of sick children to get in the door and to bed.....well, lets just cut it short and say after some barfing, linen changes, pajama changes, bribed medicine doses, wet cool rags and deep breaths....we officially declared MISSION COMPLETE!