December 9, 2007

A Great Trip!

Thursday, I had to go to Utah for work. Waking bright and early to catch the first flight, Calvin did surprisingly well. Apparently he likes airplanes a lot better than cars. He immediately fell asleep and then woke up just as we were landing. Which was a very welcome change to the several trips we made down there in the car, in which he screamed the entire way.

We got to Orem around 9:30, dropped Calvin and Jaleese off at Laquinta (where I had my first coronary of the trip). Maybe I'm a hotel snob, (ok so not maybe) but this place took the cake. I realize we were trying to get a hotel close to the office so I could run and feed Calvin when needed, but holy cow this place was just treacherous. I was wary walking in the hotel, and it just smelled bad, but our room was another story. For those of you that don't know, I am a germaphobic to the extreme. I'm the girl that coats the toilet in 3 layers of toilet paper and washes her hands for no less than 30 seconds after using the bathroom. Anyhow, I knew things were going to be bad when I immediately noticed how poorly our room was vacuumed. In fact I'm not sure it was vacuumed at all. Immediately, I threw back the bedspreads (because we all know you don't sit on hotel bedspread, you run the risk of infection from other people's sex juices). I discovered unknown substances on the sheets which were brown in color. So in my next line of defense I cover the bed with Calvin's extra blankets, and my extra clothes. I walk into the bathroom, and discovered the monstrosity. Several giant dark hairballs were sprawled across the bathroom floor and dirty soap scum remained in the tub. I would have taken a picture, so everyone could experience the grossness with me, but I was afraid I might vomit if I tried to zoom in on the subject. I then searched the Internet for gross bathrooms to find something comparable, but now I just want to poke my mind's eye out. (Note: Do not do an Internet search on "gross bathrooms"). Anyhow, we were late for our meetings so I had to instruct Jaleese that Calvin was not permitted to touch anything and especially not permitted to crawl on the floor as he might get athlete's foot on his cute little hands.

Our meetings last all day, till 6 p.m. We are exhausted from not sleeping much the night before, but plan on meeting my brother and an ex-coworker for dinner. So we meet at Dane's favorite pizza restaurant, where I experience Coronary #2. So what's worse than having to use a public restroom? Changing your crawling baby that wants to eat everything in a public restroom. I won't even go into the details here, but as you can imagine, if I have to prepare a toilet for use in the way I mentioned above, preparing the changing table for my child is quite a process, especially when I see what appears to be feces all over the straps.

Anyhow, we make it through dinner and are anxious to get to the hotel and into bed, but who can sleep when you are freezing because you can't use the sheets and are keeping warm only with your extra clothes draped across yourself. So, for the second night in a row I get less than 4 hours of sleep.

Friday goes a little better, the meetings aren't as long, and we have our Christmas party that night, but unfortunately I had to top the trip off with eating a nut. I had my sister sneak to the nearest gas station to get me some benedryl before anyone noticed that I was breaking out in hives...

(I was going to write more, but I was just boring myself.)

8 comments:

Jessica said...

Oh my! What a trip. You would have been better off staying at my motel that was built in 1946. At least our rooms are clean and sheets do not have brown spots. But PS. I wouldn't maren crawl on the floors in the rooms!
Seriously, I have heard nasty things about laquinta. Nest time you need a room we will hook you up at the Hampton!

Leslie and Dave said...

Sounds like you would have been better off camping. But, I'm glad Calvin was so good on the plane.

Denise said...

Oh Rani, I feel for you. Nothing is worse than a gross hotel room. I'm sorry we missed you this weekend, I was planning on saturday lunch but you were getting pulled in too many directions!

Denise said...

Oh Rani, I feel for you. Nothing is worse than a gross hotel room. I'm sorry we missed you this weekend, I was planning on saturday lunch but you were getting pulled in too many directions!

Megs said...

Did you seriously sleep with your clothes draped across you? You crack me up. I'm still shocked you ever used that dirty bathroom in Mexico......

The Cliftens said...

Rani!! Why did you have to go and eat a nut?? I was so excited to see you at Roch's party! Sad we missed you guys.

Matthew said...

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jillustrator said...

And let's not forget that everyone in the room (as there were more people than just Calvin and Rani) had to have the lights off and sit in complete silence after 9 pm so Calvin could sleep. Who will they feel sorry for now?