Idaho

A couple of weekends ago Sam and I ventured up to Idaho for the first time since we had left for school. It was so nice to be back and just get to relax and enjoy time with family. It was a pretty chill weekend, which was nice.

We didn't leave Provo until about 5:30 or 6. This turned out to be a really bad idea. Because of the traffic it took us an hour to go twelve miles. It was pretty ridiculous. The rest of the ride was pretty nice. I decided that we should call Momma Syd to let her know when we would be there. It turns out, she didn't know we were coming, because Sam never officially told her. But it wasn't a big deal at all. We hadn't eaten dinner before we left so we stopped in Brigham City at this place called Hunan Village. They serve Chinese food. It was alright food, I have definitely had been Chinese food before. We hopped back on the road and got to the house around 11 or so. We chatted for a a while with the parents and then ventured downstairs to hit the hay.

We got to sleep in, which was so nice. When we went upstairs Momma Syd was talking to Christina on Skype. Chris is Sam's sister that lives in Serbia, with her husband. He works for the embassy. We chatted with Chris for a bit and then ate some breakfast. Sam and I didn't bring any clean clothes up with us because we brought all our laundry to do. So we had to wait to shower until we had clean clothes. Momma Syd took us to lunch at this place called Bubba's Barbecue. I had never been before. It turned out really good. We made Sam get a hair cut after wards and went shopping for stuff for dinner. I almost forgot. When we got stuff for dinner, we made a terrible decision to get this ear wax removal kit. Sam used it first. You basically put ten drops of this kind of gooey stuff in your ear and wait for a few minutes. Then you have a bulb syringe and flush out your war. Well I used it after Sam and was fine for a while. During dinner one of my ears started to hurt. I decided I would just wait until after dinner to take some medicine. That turned out to be a bad idea. Since I waited so long to take the medicine, the pain in my ear just kept increasing. When I finally took the pain medicine, it didn't touch the pain. At this point I was in pretty bad shape. My other ear started to hurt quite a lot as well. I went to the store with Sam and Momma Syd to get a few things. On the way home I was in tears. My ears hurt unbelievably bad. I had never been in such pain. When we got home I went right downstairs to lay down. Sam brought me some more medicine and a heating pad. When I was 5, I had a tare in my ear drum and my mom would always have my use a heating pad, so I thought it might help this time. It did a little. Sam thought that I might be having an allergic reaction to the stuff I put in my ear, so he gave me some benadryl. I was pretty drugged up on medicine, but the pain wasn't even being touched by any of it. I tried to watch some tv to take my mind off it. About an hour or so later Sam gave me a different kind of medicine, because I was still in so much pain and crying. The benadryl started to kick in and make me sleeping. I passed out and when I woke up in the morning, my ears no longer hurt. So word to the wise, do not ever use some stupid ear wax removal kit. It's just a bad idea.

On Sunday, since it was general conference weekend, there was church. We helped bring some stuff up stairs for Momma Syd to put the dining room back together. After we ate dinner and all of our laundry was done, we hit the road to come back home to Provo. It was a really great weekend with a great family.

Until next time!