Goodbye baby passport, hello first hospital visit abroad

Oh man. Well it took me a couple of days to get this one created because it was a rough travel day. Kiddo's passport expires in January and there were exactly zero appointments in the States to get it renewed in time for this trip, so we scheduled a two day trip to Madrid to get it renewed. We were feeling really good about ourselves because we managed to convince the consulate to expedite us without an appointment by being there 30 minutes before opening. (Luckily (unluckily), I had a bit of experience on this one from when my passport was stolen in Barcelona 15 years ago). After submittal went through, we went back to our little hotel room and packed up a day early to head "home".

While Tyler was fetching the car, Presley was chasing Bodhi through the hotel room and tripped and fell face first on to the corner of the Murphy bed, and when I managed to finally see her face, I gasped. She cut her forehead, slashed her eyelid and her eye itself had blood in it. One failed attempt at a local urgent care that didn't see kids, and we landed at the hospital, where, once again, my poor Spanish language skills were put to the test. Thankfully, I finally managed to send them our supplemental travel health insurance and they treated her. They put some numbing gel on for an hour and then assessed for stitches, ultimately deciding she only needed glue.

I'm thanking all her Nana and Grandma angels for the near miss. The eye blood was only a superficial scratch at the tear duct. Just a slightly different angle and it would have been a whole different story.