That last one was enough encouragement for me to scrub every inch of my body three times. And before I was done I used the shampoo to wash all over because it smelled like strawberries. Sure enough, when I came out of the bathroom both Mom and John gave me the sniff test. Thankfully I passed both tests!

I was grateful that there were two Queen sized beds; one for Mom and John to share and one for me to have all to myself. While I had been washing away the stale urine from my body, Mom had stripped the bed, placed the blue tarp over the hotel mattress, and then put the sheets back on the bed. I hadn’t thought about it until right this moment but the tarp hadn’t smelled so she or John must have cleaned it while I was in the tub.