The Terrific3 travel blog

We are currently seated in a a complimentary upgraded premium class seat on British airways, hoping to take off in 15 minutes and land in PDX about 10 hours, barring any further ​adventures after 16 days in Europe, 4 more than originally planned, compliments of the local Italy Norovirus. We are thankful for the final…

We have arrived in London as of yesterday. It has all been tenuous and touch and go for the past day. I awoke after midnight Sunday night with vomiting and then the most severe diarrhea I’ve had seen I was volunteering in Guatemala. Really gave me empathy for what my boys went through. I spent…

I’m still not feeling great but also not vomiting or having diarrhea. Mostly just utterly exhausted and didn’t sleep well. We rescheduled our Row Venice experience to today and I’m so glad we did. We all had the best time and the boys loved it and were natural gondola rowers. After our lesson, we had…

S woke up today with his usual energy and kookiness which was reassuring. z looked ok too and they both had a little breakfast after their morning nausea meds. It was so nice to see a little sparkle in their faces again, poor kids. I even got out for a 3 mile run as I…

Well, today was the day that we were supposed to leave Venice via London to portland. This morning, S woke up looking like a new person but Z was still feeling quite dizzy, distressed and dehydrated. We made the decision that they were too weak to take the flight as Z couldn’t even sit up…

Today was composed of lots of phone calls, online doctors’ appointments, visits to pharmacies to get meds, to grocery stores to get hydration, and calls to hotels, flights, mileage plans, work etc to figure out back up plan if kids can’t travel tomorrow if they are still sick. S is on day 4 of illness…

I wish I could write a longer post, but I’m tired. We had a great day trip to Murano and Burano yesterday. However, S is now on day 4 of his GI illness, still vomiting and having diarrhea, and Z woke me at midnight having thrown up and with explosive diarrhea that I then cleaned…

Poor S has been under the weather. He either has food poisoning or a GI virus as he had diarrhea yesterday (thankfully stopped by a dose of Imodium) and then vomited this morning firing breakfast (now zofran on board). He actually felt “better” after that but had been tired and off all day. I managed…

The day began with a nice restful night’s sleep and I’ve planned our trip to that approximately every other day, we don’t have anything to run to early in the morning. Which means the kids get an hour of screen time with breakfast I cooked and I get an hour of running time, much needed…

I’ve been to Rome, Florence and Venice before, so it was really my wish to see a new place in Italy. I’ve had this dream of doing a bed and breakfast farm stay in Tuscany, taking cooking classes and riding bikes along the roads of Tuscany. So today was a nod to that day, though…