Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Vomit at the Virgin River!

Day 2 of our vacation had us waking up at our hotel in Mesquite, Nevada at a fairly normal time without any incident. Melissa and I slept in a small squishy bed, Jesse had his own bed and Owen was in his travel playpen. We met with Judy Winchester, Melissa's family friend from forever ago, at the breakfast buffet in the casino. This would mark the beginning of way too much food consumption on our vacation. The food was fairly tasty and we all ate our fill. The boys really stocked up on their favorite food watermelon. After breakfast was over I took the boys back to the room to get dressed for a quick dip in the pool before we headed over to the Winchester home. Once we all got to the pool I noticed that it was not your typical pool. I've never been in a more briny chlorinated cesspool in all my days. The water had a super nasty taste to it, which made water from the ocean seem sweet by comparison. We played in it for about half an hour when Jesse accidentally swallowed a bit of it. He reacted by returning all of the morning's meal back into the pool in a steady stream of puke. I was horrified at the sight but more worried about Jesse's well being. In the meantime the life guard had cleared out the pool and instructed us to get out and keep an eye out on Jesse. I'm glad we finally left as that was just a poor place to swim in to begin with. We got back to the hotel room, scraped the brine and chlorine from our bodies, and got ready. More than likely the hotel just had the pool filtered for a few hours, added more chlorine, and called it good. I don't think we'll be going back into those waters...

4 comments:

  1. Gotta love those hockey hotels. NV/CA state line is also a great place to find a deal...

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  2. Oh my gosh are you kidding me that is disgusting... I know exactly what you are talking about though when you get out of those nasty pools you feel like you have a thick layer of slime or something on you.....gross!!

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  3. That is sooo sad. But, I have to admit I started laughing. I sincerely hope Jesse is ok though.

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