Abandon Trip

So this week The Husband and I were suppose to pack up our bags dude, and head off on a snowboarding trip. But sadly I write this entry sitting on the edge of our bed, not at the sexy mountain cabin on top of a fabulous piste overlooking endless vanilla type hills, but on our regular bed, at our home in the ATL. Bummer.

Unfortunately the trip had to be cancelled. Various events over the past weekend made it difficult, nay, impossible for us to go. Every year, The Husband and 2 of his buddies take a male bonding trip to the slopes of Kirkwood, California and spend about 3 days snowboarding. This trip was taken early last week and from there the plan was that he would do the male thing at Kirkwood, then fly to Boston on Friday, where a number of his athletes were competing at the Boston Indoor Games on Saturday evening and finally on the Monday he would head out to Boise, Idaho and meet me there for our very own snowboarding vacation.

But a bout of altitude sickness struck him down on the first leg of his extensive travel itinerary and he spent a solid night on his knees over a toilet. When he wasn’t in the crash position, toilet bowl style, he was nursing headaches and shaking. But he soldiered on and managed to get on the plane for Boston. Things looked like they were improving until after the track meet on Saturday. The illness raised its ugly head again and once more he was finding himself at the mercy of the toilet.

In between all this Fintan had also decided to get sick. So he had to be taken to the vet. It was just too much. All the signs were saying, “Do not go” and we listened. So no week of snow bunny fun for Shinks. We’ll just have to make another stab at it in a couple of weeks.