A dream which turned out to be a nightmare

My husband and I had a dream. We were dreaming to go for some warm, sunny place where we could relax and enjoy good food and have fun. We were dreaming to go to Asia where we really haven't been before. The only tropical place we both had been was Hawaii, but it was not really a vacation. So now we wanted to try Thailand. I was thinking that country to be a heaven because of the beautiful pictures I've seen and the delicious food I've tried. And also I was thinking that it has to be safe and amazing country since it's one of the most visited vacation places according to Finns.

The last fall was the worst for us. We both were so depressed and we literally were laying on the floor every day while our daughter was playing around us. We were so depressed that we didn't feel like doing anything or being social at all. I was just working and my husband was going to school and when we were at home, we laid on the floor doing nothing. The weather was horrible. It was raining literally every single day and it was so dark that we didn't feel like going anywhere else than to grocery store. It was probably the hardest fall ever for me adding to that I suffered for pregnancy nauseousness. Then I decided that I won't do it again. I simply can't handle it another time. 

Oh well, somehow we survived that long season and when my winter vacation became closer we decided to explore Thailand without any plan. That wasn't a very good idea. Before we left I talked with many of my co-workers who have been to Thailand and they all just told me how easy, cheap and beautiful and amazing country it is. No one told me anything what things you should be aware of.  So we went to Krabi. We were little nervous how our sweet girl will behave this time on the airplane now when she's 6 months older than last time we flew with her. It went okay until I tried to get her to fall asleep. After a couple of hours, I somehow succeeded and she was sleeping on the floor on my leg space. Of course, I couldn't sleep because I was afraid that she will wake up. And she woke up when there was still 4 hours left and she didn't calm down. Everyone on the plane could hear her and woke up because of our noisy daughter. It was a nightmare. People looked at me with very bad eye and I just decided to smile at them and ignore those looks, because what else I could have done? 

So when we arrived we didn't have any place where to go and had no clue where we should even go. Somehow we found for our first night a decent hotel room. We stayed positive and were waiting for the amazing time in Thailand we had in our minds. For the next day, my husband found an island called Railey. We took a boat and went there. There were no cars and only beach. It looked amazing, just what we wanted! So we stayed there and enjoyed. We decided to stay on that island for the rest of our time because we didn't want to stress about where to go next. We ended up in a nice hotel with a swimming pool. After a couple of days, my husband started to feel nauseous and we found out that he had a food poisoning. So he was out for the next day. It was horrible. When he started to get better I started to get same symptoms and I was out. Then I decided that I don't want to stay here anymore. I want to go home, now! The only problem we had was that there were only 2 flights per week going back to Finland and we were using my standby tickets without a seat. So we could only fly if there was room on the plane. There wasn't for two days. It was overbooked. I started to panic and then we were thinking that we could fly to Singapore from Krabi and then home. So we did that. We left the next day and I felt little better already. 

Enjoying the heat!

I fell in love with Singapore immediately. Only things I knew about the country were that it's super clean, chewing gum is not allowed and it's super expensive. Well, coming from Finland the prices weren't that bad. We were planning to stay in Singapore only one night and then fly back home but I started to feel bad again. The next day I threw up on the street and was afraid that someone will give me a ticket for that. That didn't happen. I just figured that I should go to the hospital since I'm pregnant and the vomiting and diarrhea have lasted for too long. So I went to the cleanest hospital I've ever seen. They took blood tests and ultrasound. After five hours being there, I got a permission to fly home and we sure did! The flight back was so much better with Isabella, she slept almost the whole flight, so did we. 

After all that we decided not to travel for a long time. It was way too much. Also traveling with a toddler is not the easiest. Isabella wants to walk now all the time and wants to do everything on her own and she can't do that much yet. She loves the water but she doesn't want us to hold her so it's kind of difficult situation. It was one of the worst vacations we have had so far. We had good times there but it was more pain than pleasure. Also if you think you can relax with a toddler, forget about it. 

Isabella loved coconut water!

So, another lesson learned. Stay home, hahah! Btw, I was five days still sick after we came back home and I had to go to the doctor in Finland again, but nothing was found. Just a typical tourist bacteria like the doctor said. You can bet that next trip we plan well ahead and when our youngest child is 3 years old. We can visit the US before that but nowhere else. 

 

Traveling with a toddler, do I need to say more?