This weekend we went to visit Danny at Spring Hill for family weekend. We all got to see his new dorm and where his classes were. So, all around everything was pretty satisfactory… except for the hotel we stayed in: Quality Inn& Suites. there were so many things wrong with that hotel; we even made a list of them.

1. Advertised the room having a King Sized bed, wound up having just a double

2. Huge ceiling leak in the breakfast area

3. The mirror was dirty and chipped

4. The picture on the TV turned from bright green to red

5. In the lobby entrance there was this nice lining of light bulbs going all down the wall, it looked pretty neat… except only 4 out of about 30 of those light bulbs actually worked (during our stay, none of them were even replaced)

6. Not enough sheets in the room

7. Not enough towels

8. Unsanitary breakfast area (see some examples below list)

9. Fridge in the room coming out of its place

10. Almost everyone there was [slow moving. — Editor]

11. Chairs in breakfast area had a lot of stains on them

12. Microwave was dirty and rusty

13. “King Sized Bed” had only one wimpy pillow

14. Unfriendly Staff

15. Referring to number 10, almost everyone there got hot real easily and were slow

16. Smelled funny

17. In our room, one of the outlets was broken

18. Light bulb burnt out in bathroom (I don’t remember that one)

[This was a heat lamp, but the switch on the wall was broken. — Editor]

19. Messed up shower “massager” knob attachment

20. TV did not remember channel when you turned it off

21. Disabled our room keys too early

22. No newspapers

I don’t know if I forgot to write anything, so, my parents can help with that. Also, later on in our stay, some very rude people were staying who were shouting and laughing in the hallway at a very late hour. I am pretty sure these were the same people who had earlier polluted the pool (water and noise pollution).

Next…

Examples of an unsanitary breakfast area:

~ Several times I saw a lady who worked at the hotel squish down the trash in the trash can with bare hands and without washing her hands.

~ Then I saw the same lady loading biscuits to be eaten by the guests on a tray and some muffins… with bare hands

~ Nobody wore gloves or hair nets

Need I say more?? Disgusting!

Now, I don’t think I would have been bothered so much if they were charging us a real cheap price, but they were actually charging an expensive price! I wouldn’t be surprised if this turned out to be a one-star hotel.

Although it was pretty bad, we did manage to find a few positive things about this hotel, so here’s the positive list:

1. There was a lot of space in the room for a hotel room

2. A lot of storage space (even if we didn’t use it)

All in all, I think we actually had a good time of putting down the hotel, and mom took advantage of the free coffee in our room by taking all the packs with us when we left.

I went trick-or-treating this year with Shivani and Christine came over. I got some really good stuff! overall I had 238 pieces I believe. Claire and I had a little trading post, I was able to pull a few tricky tricks on her (TRICK-or-treat, right?) and get some good stuff. Like giving her green apple flavored candy and getting blow-pops out of it. I am not really sure what I was supposed to me. “You look great Kelly,” Christine said. I am a gorgeous model!! Well… I guess I WAS, you get my point. Well, by the end of the night, I had come up with an official name for my whole “ensemble”. I was a Zombie Pirate Clown. Unfortunately, nobody asked me what I was supposed to be. I was DYING to say a piece of clay. Ah well. claire and I also have a little candy collage.

Ah well. claire and I also have a little candy collage

I’m making a face in the background… what else is new?

I wound up having EXACTLY 4 more pieces than Claire. Which is actually pretty funny, because she gave me 3 pieces of candy before we counted. Haha! I think that is Ironic. She said that she didn’t like those candies.

New Candy:

*A whistle?? not quite candy, but a lady was handing them out this year so…

*Bubblicious pops– Lolly pop, gum, and juice in the middle.

*Imitation Blow Pops– Double Bubble, and Hubba Bubba. Both worse than the real thing.

*Tropical Flavored Tootsie Roll Pops

*Hubba Bubba gum sticks, with a sticker!!

*Jolly rancher fruit chews, had the lollipop fruit chews, but not the plain fruit chews.

It was strange this year, I didn’t get the normal 80 tootsie rolls, i only had about 8 this year. I didn’t get any popcorn bags this year either… or any of those really gross candies I always get. Oh, and it’s a record, 1 Almond Joy in my entire candy bag!