Day 41 of recovery

8/10/14

Day 41 of recovery

Saturday we had a fun day, we went on a cruise on the Croix River.  We had to be there by 11:30 & it was about 45 min away.  It was so much fun & very relaxing!  They fed us a wonderful buffet lunch with some of the best cookies we’ve ever had.  Everything was really good.  After lunch we sat up on the deck & looked at all the huge houses that we passed.  After that we shopped in some of the little shops they had there on Main St.  We had a wheelchair with us but Alexa ended up feeling extremely sick the rest of the day.  We came back to the RMH & she was very, very nauseated.  I think it may be cuz of taking most of her meds by mouth now & her body will have to adjust to it.  Guess who we met up with that afternoon?  Jenna Claypool came to RMH to visit with us & we loved seeing her!!!  For those who don’t know, she was in our singles ward there in Utah & has moved back to Minnesota.  She even stayed to eat dinner here with us!  Later that night Chels, Shayla & I decided we needed to do some more shopping so we headed back to Mall of America & found some great deals.

Today we said goodbye to our friends here, the Clements.  They headed back to Arkansas & we are going to miss them so much!  We ate brunch with them & took some pics before they left.  Alexa made it thru the entire Sac mtg today, yay!!  We came back & changed clothes & then headed to Minnehaha Falls.  It was pretty crowded but we were able to walk down to see the falls.  After that we came back & had to make our own dinner since RMH wasn’t cooking tonight.  I don’t know what I’m going to do when I get home & have to start cooking every night, haha!!  I’m a bit spoiled now! 

Alexa has been doing pretty well, if we could get this nausea under control, she would be great!  Tyson has been doing the exercises the doctors have given him & I thought he was doing a lot better too but on Fri night he had a pretty bad attack.  They say it will just take time so hopefully they will get fewer & fewer.  Ty is so anxious to get back home he can hardly stand it.  He wanted us to try to make our trip back in 1 day but I don’t think that is going to happen with Alexa.  I just think it will be too hard on her.   

Here are some youtube videos playing on the playground at Minnehaha:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ITKTuzYb4o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WWpJIpscD0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko5gnhE-9tQ

Ty & Tyson found a project here at the Ronald McDonald House. They gave them all the supplies to paint the gameroom.

Our cruise ship at Stillwater, MN

The fabulous lunch buffet on the ship

One of the mansions along the river

Ty was impressed with the new bridge being built

This was outside candy shop

Chelsea, Jenna Claypool & Shayla found a new beau!!

Shayla was happy that his feet were bigger than hers, haha

Us with the Clements

This is Tyler, Alexa & Austin. They all had the same surgery

The queens

Minnehaha Falls

I was impressed that Alexa made it up all these stairs without any probs, it about killed me!!

Playground at Minnehaha, they had some awesome equipment!!