We celebrated at the beach last night. Well, some of us celebrated and some of us waited in the hotel room for sleeping children to come back from the New Year's Eve bash. One by one the children were returned to our hotel room. Three people in one full size bed and four in the other. One boy slept on a $5.00 blow up raft in the crack between the bed and the wall and another slept soundly on two soft chairs pushed together. It was cramped, it was hot, it was sticky and sandy... IT WAS AWESOME.
We spent time out on the beach in the late afternoon and caught a great dinner out on the patio in the dark. We swam in the pool and the boys showed us their new swimming strokes (more about this in another blog). Then it was back to the hotel room to catch WWE as some of us have certain priorities. It seemed comical that the entire family including Scott's mom and dad were huddled around this small TV eagerly watching wrestling, some of us for the first time while Gavin excitedly explained all the rules and the wrestlers and WWE history. Soon after that, most of the group headed back out to ring in the new year beach style. From the sounds emanating from outside the paper thin hotel room door, there were fireworks (possibly being lit on the sidewalk about 6 inches from my door), loud music, dancing, noisemakers, possibly a fight or two and lots and lots of celebrating. Kudos to Petey who usually sleeps alone in his man cave with his sound machine for being able to sleep next to me in a sandy bed with all the noise.
I woke up early and snuck out of the room trying not to wake and of the sleepy beasts. I found my scrubs under a pair of wet swim trunks. I got ready for work as quietly as possible. Gavin was awake and was searching relentlessly for the bag of little Kit Kat candy bars leftover from our celebration last night. I kissed him goodbye and slipped out into the early morning darkness.
I was the only car on the road as I drove across the sleepy hungover island. I silently made New Year's resolutions for our family as I headed for the hospital. By 2012 more of us will be potty trained and more of us will be sleeping in our own beds, some of us might be running in a 5K, and some of us should be a little lighter.
Happy New Year!!!
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