Oh man, do I have a crick in my neck. And I don't even know what that is! I just know I slept on a pillow that felt like a bag of cement.
Let me just say that I travel, on occassion, for soccer tournaments with my girls. It's fun in that I often get some one on one time with one of my kids. This weekend was with my eldest, someone who happens to be very low maintenance. Simply put: she's easy to please. She doesn't care where you eat, doesn't care what you do. She's pretty go-with-the-flow on things like this. After our 2nd game, I asked: "Wanna go to a movie?" "I don't care." "Want pasta for dinner?" "If you do." That kind of thing.
So we did. We saw Alice in Wonderland, which was actually a surprise, since I was sort of dreading it, but there wasn't much to choose from. But it was interesting, and Mal enjoyed the costuming, special effects, and make up. And then, with bellies tied over enough full of M&M's and greasy popcorn, we set off to check in to our temporary "Home Sweet Home".
Or...Hotel You've Got to Be Kidding Me! I'm pretty sure I saw two hookers booking rooms. Do they go by the hour?! I'm paying either way...and a bunch of soccer families are slated to stay there. I get a text: "This place is sketchy! DUMP!" Not off to a good start. I check in, the guy looks at me like "Are you sure you wanna stay here?" Oh my. We open the door on the top end of the horseshoe shaped complex...right close to the street...and potential bullets flying thru the air. Ground floor. With a sign that says "Easy Target". Ok, well, maybe not. But I felt that vulnerable.
So we go in. Within 10 seconds I tell Mal, that bedspread is OFF. We take a whiff and want to cry. WHAT IS THAT SMELL? I have a headache from whatever that smell is in about 15 seconds. I tell my daughter to take a shower, just on the off-chance it's the post 2 game soccer smell. NOPE. She goes to grab a towel. They look definitely laundered but found a single black hair that didn't quite shake loose. I'm vomiting in my mouth at this point. So I plopped on the bed and told my daughter we'd be cranking the heat cuz there's no way we're sleeping between those sheets. Thankfully, she'd brought a pillow and blanket, and I'd brought an extra blanket, but no pillow. Used my sweatshirt as a pillow case. Pretty much, the towel incident ruled out trusting the sheets.
We made it through the night unscathed, albeit with a sore back from a horrible bed (a double by the way), a loud forced air-heater thing, and feeling like I hadn't slept a wink. The moral of this story is...you get what you pay for. I half expected America's Most Wanted to show up with their film crew, I swear.
This is all I know. Next weekend, I'm driving home. It's worth the trip. And the clean pillowcase.
7 comments:
Just the thought of the stray black hair has me vomiting in my mouth.
And...the sweatshirt as the pillowcase... we are SO related.
Glad you're back.
why oh why did you stay?!?! you are obviously NOT related to my father, who would be driving around town for the next two hours, checking in and out of every available hotel in site.
when we stayed at a hotel for my grandfather's funeral just this past november, we switched hotels once, then he switched rooms TWICE at the new hotel. and asked for a different maid to clean his room.
if i were his made, i would have put some kind of itching powder between his sheets. just saying...
serious. vomit. in. the. mouth.
if any of your soccer games bring you guys to the bay area, call me!
p.s.- alice in wonderland is worth seeing on the big screen?
summer -- to scary for your Addi -- I would think. MOre of an adult movie. It was cool. Not sure about that. i see very little on the big screen these days $$$
Did the soccer game happen to be in Redding? Because that sounds just like a place we stayed in there... and the next morning when I told my friend where we had ended up she said it was well-known as the worst place in town...I guess it pays to do your research!
Yikes! Glad you made it out of there alive. :)
Nothing like something to help you appreciate home more. Glad you made it through the night!
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