Vacation + Violation = Vindication?!?!

Hey everybody! I'm on vacation at my in-laws house and have been having a great time doing LOTS of activities. We got here early Tuesday morning and hung out with my family all day doing low-key-recover-from-the-flight activities. Today was the day that A took 3 unassisted steps! Yeah! Wednesday, we hung out, went shopping, had severe guilt about certain purchases, immediately planned on returning several of the items, and played games. Thursday, we went to a local Water Park (HUMUNGUS!!) and had a great time celebrating B's 6th birthday until... *insert ominous theme music* we realized that my mother-in-law's purse had been stolen. This would have been unfortunate in the first place, but add to the fact that we had been using her purse as a store-everything-valuable, well, that just plain sucks. B's brand new camera that I bought him for his birthday, my wallet with 4 Seaworld yearly passes, $60, Multiple CC & Account numbers, my mother-in-law's camera, & wallet were all contained within its 'shelter.' Why is it that because of this, I literally wanted to vomit yesterday afternoon and broke down in tears? For some reason, I was attached to my wallet and felt severe remorse for my son having to learn that some people are inheritantly evil. Hence, vomit wishes...

Now, thanks to modern technology, I was able to cancel all 5-6 of my accounts that the wallet had cards to, Hubby will close our checking account and reopen another, we will buy B another camera, renew my temple recommend (yet again), get new insurance cards, and I'll finally get a cuter, newer wallet... BUT! I have to fly home on Tuesday and I have absolutely NO identification. (This was the main reason, violation aside, that I was feeling nauseated yesterday.) Luckily, I was able to file a police report at the waterpark and the airline will take a copy of that as identification. *Sigh of relief.*

Even though this day will still make me cringe a little, I was able to get some perspective last night and realized that it could've been SOOOO much worse and that given the option of the alternative, I would gladly give away my wallet and even my son's birthday gift in a heartbeat. With that said, I wanted to lend some advice to those of you who wanted to visit a park of any kind. Take a small amount of cash with you and put it somewhere on your person (I even saw someone at the waterpark carrying with them a plastic bag with their essentials.) and leave the rest in the locked car. But double check that your car is locked before you leave it as well.

On a brighter note, we got some fun photos that I'll post as soon as we're safely at home.