Super8-----Yikes!!

So we drove down to SF for a family vacation over the holidays. It was 16 hours of driving on the way down, four of them painfully slow as we had to put chains to trudge through 100 miles of snow. As soon as we arrived at the hotel at 1 AM things took a much needed turn for the better. Plus I must mention that The Kid and Z traveled like troopers, I was amazed. Anyhow you've probably heard about the trip details from the CEO or I.

What I really wanted to post was some info about our night spent at The Super8. Wow! That was quite a place. We knew that it was a cheap hotel but it seemed to advertise all the right things, heated pool, internet, microwave, refrigerator etc... What they forgot to advertise was the dirty carpeting, old pillows and moldy shower curtain. As I sit here and write about it and think about it I'm embarrassed to say we didn't get up and leave. It was the heated pool that hooked us in, the two little ones love to swim and so we converted my pajama bottoms to swim trunks and took 'em in. A couple days later I asked The Kid what was her favorite hotel (mind you the one in SF was a four star) and she paused and thought for a good five seconds before confidently answering, "the one with the pool." And in the end I guess that is all that really matters is that they felt safe and loved and had fun swimming. However, you'll never find me at a Super8 again.