Yep. You heard that right. I got sick the morning we left for our trip to Key West. Well there’s more to the story. For a week prior to the trip I decided that I should really get some sun before the trip. My gym has tanning included so problem solved. Since I almost never go to my gym I’m assuming this is where I came in contact with a whole new cesspool of germs even though I thoroughly cleaned the beds before and after my sessions.

Monday morning comes and I wake with a little sore throat. I chalk it up to a change in the season (even though I live in Florida and we have no such thing). We hit the road for the four hour trek to Ft. Lauderdale. By the time we get there I’m feeling run down and I’ve been coughing a lot. The congestion has begun.

I’ll spare you the ‘blow by blow’ of my cold-from-hell but needless to say it put a damper on our trip. I got the DayQuill/NiQuill combo pack and stayed doped up the whole time. It didn’t really work that well or maybe it did and I would have been a hell of a lot worse without it but I powered through like a rock s
tar anyway. Well more like a strung out rock star but still.

Of the four of us on the trip, only one (not me) managed not to get sea sick on our fishing charter. I totally lost my cookies (and everything else I had eaten all week) on our parasailing adventure. My husband wanted me to take the first leg of our eight hour trek home on Sunday so I was jacked up on 5 hour energy or I would have slept the whole way. He took pitty on me when he saw my puffy, blowfish-est face that morning and drove the whole way.

Bottom line. Don’t subject yourself to a whole new cesspool of germs right before your big vacation or you’ll be forced to party like a strung out rock star (or sleep through the whole thing).