Brad had meetings again in the morning.
I went out by the pool and read a
book and met up with Brad for lunch.
Our
excursion for the day was deep sea fishing.
Neither one of us cared about fishing, but it was something we would
probably never do on a vacation we planned.
We foolishly signed up to go.
I
don’t usually get motion sickness, and my sister Alyse had been deep sea
fishing a ton in Florida and loved it and she can’t even go on rides at
amusement parks without feeling sick.
I
figured I could handle it without any problems, but I was still a little
nervous about it because once you are out there you can’t just go running back to
shore.
You are stuck!
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| A view of some boats. |
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| Another boat that was going out. |
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| Our boat. |
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| Some supplies. |
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| Brad on the boat. |
The group of us that went deep sea fishing were divided up
with 4 people to a boat.
Brad and I were
with another couple from the Midwest.
We
were told it was much calmer water than a couple days earlier when another
group went fishing.
At first I was doing
fine, but I was surprised by how small the boat was.
After about 10 minutes of being out in deeper
water I started to feel sick.
I thought
to my self “Oh dear we have 3.5 hours left of this, I can do it”
That didn’t last long.
I suddenly felt like I had to lay down.
I had heard that going under the deck to the area
with the couches and bathroom was a bad idea, but I had to lay down.
I was doing really well not getting sick and
just was down there actively telling myself it would be fine and that I was
fine.
Basically I was lying to myself
and I was ok with that.
Once we started
heading back the waves got rougher and I couldn’t lie to myself anymore and had
to make a run for the bathroom.
The
captain sent Brad to check on me.
I
spent a good portion of the trip back to the shore in the bathroom or laying on
the floor of the boat.
I felt so hot and
knew I should move to the top of the boat by Brad but I physically could not
make myself go.
It was awful!
I have never felt so terrible before and
embarrassed on top of all of it.
To make
matters worse we didn’t even catch a fish and we stayed out 30 minutes longer
than we were supposed to.
On the bright
side I never once complained or begged to go back early.
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| One of the forts, I can't remember which one. |
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| So pretty! |
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| Last picture before I started getting sick. |
It affected me big time.
Even several months later typing this is making me sick to my stomach.
The weekend we got back our Pastor gave a
whole sermon about fishing and kept making analogies to actual fishing
and I started feeling nauseous.
I told
Brad “If he doesn’t stop talking about boats and fishing I will get sick.
He is unknowingly torturing me.”
Brad just laughed.
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| Dressed for a night out...still not feeling 100% |
That night we had the closing dinner with a great dualing
piano act.
They were absolutely
amazing!
I got to sit next to the head
of all Pioneer research at dinner and he was such an interesting man.
I had fun learning about how he met his wife,
the traveling he does, etc.
At one point
Brad walked to the back to get a drink and never returned.
Apparently the rest of our friends were
seated in the back of the room and he decided to stay back there with
them.
He sent me a text to tell me, but
my phone was on silent, so it took me a little while to figure it out.
We spent the rest of the night spending time
with all our new friends, exchanging information and laughing until we
hurt.
It was so nice to meet such
wonderful people and we fully intend on keeping in touch with all of them!
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| The Ladies! |
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| The guys! |
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