Double Surprise!

I was so excited to be able to go back home. Especially when my arrival was a complete surprise. All I could think while waiting in the airport and during my flight was how I was going to make my entrance and how much I wanted to hug my family. Mom and Dad picked me up at the Santiago airport early Sunday morning. My mom’s birthday was Sept 8th, a day before my sister's wedding. My sisters decided to have a surprise birthday party for her the Sunday of my arrival, since everybody will be in wedding mode the day of her actual birthday. My dad mentioned to me that we needed to kill some time before going home since my sisters needed time to get home from church and set up for the surprise party. So I asked them to show me their apartment in Santiago and we took a walk around their neighborhood trying to calculate when it was a good time to go to my parents house. You see, my dad works in Santiago but they live in Viña del Mar. He rents an apartment in Santiago which is two hours from where they live. My Mom spends a couple of day in Santiago to keep him company and some other days and weekends at their house in Viña.

Because I knew about the birthday celebration and didn’t want to spoil the surprise I told my parents to go inside the house by themselves and that I was going to wait in the car a few minutes. I could hear from the car everybody yelling Surprise as my mom was opening the door! I couldn’t wait any longer and after 30 seconds I opened the door and said “ Am I invited to this party?” It was awesome! Everybody was still behind the couch in their “surprise spots”. I got the drop on everybody and surprised them!!

I totally won my nephews and niece over with the cool farm toy house that I bought at Ikea, they loved it. I also had some other presents that put me in the running for best aunt of the year award.

That day, my oldest sister Olivia and her kids where super sick. She could barely breath and was feeling miserable. The days that followed my arrival were filled with doctor visits. My dad put the Ambulance Driver hat on and took care of everybody. Monday dad took Olivia to the doctor, while Mom and I babysat the kids. When Dad came home we went to visit his mom a.k.a Abuelita Lela. We took Vicente with us, since Vivi is in bed rest and was feeling super tired.

That night Gaby notice that Vicente was walking funny. Tuesday he wasn’t using his right foot and was complaining about pain. Dad and my sister Vivi tookhim to the Doc. Tuesday night my mom and I were feeling under the weather but managed to go shopping with Gaby and have a good time at the mall. Wednesday she woke up feeling terrible and dad took her to the doctor because she thought that maybe she had Influenza B that everybody was getting when I got there. I was feeling awful too but thought that with Theraflu and Sudafed would get me through it, wrong!! Thursday, the wedding day came and I was still super sick, the sickest I have been in my entire life. So sad. I blame all my symptoms and aches on this little guy. I think this is the exact moment that I got infected. That happens when you kiss boys other than your husband.