I was so excited to have a travel week at work. Until I got Covid. Sigh. At least it was at the end of the trip? Let's dive in.
I did get two runs in before my trip and before I got sick. It's now super cold in the morning, but also super humid. I am running in long sleeves and shorts and I am so freaking happy. This is seriously my favorite time of year to run, before the winter wind starts howling over the prairie.
We also got some football pictures done for his banner for the last home game of his 6th grade year. I wanted to make something that he could hang in his room to remind him of how far he has come and the photographer (one of his teammate's sister) knocked it out of the park. I love these so much! I picked this one for his banner, but he picked this one. I guess if he likes it then I will like it.
The rest of my week was spent traveling for my job. My boss is taking each of us in the lab on her business trips so we get to see the other aspects of our job. My turn was up for the trip to Madison WI where we have our bacteria coated. While I can't really talk about what we did since it is all under wraps and proprietary, I will just share the fun we had. My boss is about 10ish years younger than me and very brilliant in her field, and we have a lot in common in our love for science and bugs/animals.
This was flying into Madison. First flight was a puddle jumper and scared the hell out of me. Second flight was much better and a bigger plane.
The first night we found a little local bar right down the road from our hotel and had a couple of beers. I had a Spotted Cow from New Glarus Brewing and a Lakefront Pumpkin beer from Lakefront Brewing. We also had cheese curds and some really yummy burgers. The next night we just had a favorite of both of ours right by our hotel, Texas Roadhouse. Can you believe she has never eaten the rolls? Have you had the rolls? We both had yummy steaks and good beer. I have been so blessed that my last two bosses (not counting my hubby of course) were amazing strong women who lift others up and also are interested in personal growth of their employees.
Since the experiments we had set to do Thursday and Friday did not go our way, we had a freeish day on Friday. Our flight was out much later in the day, so we chose to sleep in, do some touring of the city and campus, and have one nice last lunch. Plus, we had to find something fun to take home to our kiddos. The rain made touring difficult but we saw not only the capital building, but also a large chunk of the campus. Their campus is HUGE and super spread out. I don't think I could make it as a student at such a large college.
Everyone recommended this brewery The Great Dane Pub and Brewing Company, and we just happened to be over by it by accident. We stopped in to have food and one little beer before heading to the airport. I figured maybe chilling out my flying anxiety with one beer might be a good thing. This was the Good Dog IPA and it was really delicious.
We got to the airport in plenty of time and I started oddly enough feeling achy. Like super achy in my hands and neck, which is usually an ominous sign. Of course I don't travel with a thermometer so I had no way to check my temp. I knew when we were getting ready to land that I had had a fever as I started sweating buckets and it wasn't due to being nervous. We had to sprint to catch our next flight in Dallas and literally made it there as they were closing the doors. The flight was a little bumpy when we landed but other than that, I had a row all to myself and enjoyed my book I got at the airport on the way to Dallas. I honestly just thought I maybe had the flu since one of our co workers had been diagnosed with the flu and I had been around her a lot this way. The next day when I woke up with a much higher fever, I decided to take a Covid test.
Of course my HR department had a requirement to get a test done at a clinic or hospital so I drug my very sick self to a local walk in clinic. After waiting for HOURS to get the results on a "rapid" test, I finally left and got a call a few hours later that I was indeed Covid positive and Flu negative. Let's just say I will never go to the wamego walk in clinic ever again. It's bad when the nurse asks you how to do a flu test. Sigh. At the point of publishing this I am fever free but completely congested and tired of being stuck in my bedroom. It's times like this I wish I had TV in here for sure. Oh well, I've been wanting to catch up on reading books and my UltraRunning magazine right?
Have a great week y'all and pray I can break out by next Thursday!
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