Our "Fun" Get-a-Way.

Something happened at the Super Bowl party we went to on Sunday night. Eight of the people there have been sick since! Tuesday night Roy called me on his way home from work and said he felt terrible. I told him that my throat was hurting me, too. Well, the next day he was full-out SICK and my throat was still in pretty bad shape. We dropped the kids off at my parent's house and then drove the 3 hours north to Washington DC. When we got there, Roy surprised me with a pedicure and manicure at the hotel spa, so I went there and got some pampering in while he took a nap.

Thanks, Roy! There's nothing like a good pedicure to lift this girl's spirits!

When I got back up to our room, I found my husband crashed out on the bed and looking pretty bad off. It was only 3:15 and my plans of fun in the city were looking pretty slim. Around 6:00, we decided to go get some dinner and walk to the White House, since we were staying only 2 blocks from it. Here is a picture of Roy at dinner that basically sums up our evening:

Poor Roy. He was a good sport, took me out to dinner and walked around the streets of DC, but I could tell all he wanted was a bed.

1600 Pennsylvania Aveune. George and Laura were so sweet to call us and invite us over for a casual dinner, but we felt that it would be irresponsible to our country to expose them to our germs.

We thought we'd at least get our picture in front of the house, though. It was actually a beautiful, breezy night outside--almost like it was April.

The next morning was the prayer breakfast. We woke up bright and early at 4:45 and were out of the hotel by 6:00. Poor Roy felt SO miserable and was coughing, burning up hot, had the chills, etc. I felt so badly for him! The function was very crowded and claustrophobic, but we did enjoy ourselves. Unfortunately--for this blog and it's fans-- they did not allow ANY pictures to be taken. President Bush and his wife were there and he gave a great speech. A couple of people took their cameras out and took some pictures, and I was tempted, believe me. I knew I'd humiliate my husband if I did, though. Kind of like the time we were at Epcot and Michael Jackson walked by us holding a black umbrella and I joined the crazy paparazzi crowd and took off running after him. He never lets me forget how insane I acted that day, but I got a great picture of Michael:) Oh, yeah...Barack and Hillary were not there. I guess they think campaigning is more important than the spiritual welfare of our nation. Hmmm. I think that just cost them my vote.

After the breakfast, we drove back to my parent's house and enjoyed a nice dinner with my family that night. My parents closed out on some property they owned with Kroger grocery stores on Thursday afternoon, so it was a celebratory meal for our family without any kids. We were missing the Logans and Dayna's husband, Juette, but it was still a nice and happy occassion!

The Reber/Renalds/Seckman/Graham families.

We are back home now after having a rough start to our day. Roy once again felt/feels miserable and I still had/have a lingering sore throat. Thankfully, the kids aren't sick (yet!). I've been praying like crazy that they won't catch what we have. When we got home, Caroline wanted to play with her Daddy outside. He was a good sport and swung her on the swing for a while. Hopefully this will be the start to a relaxing and care-free weekend!