and it continues

Let me tell you something about the Days Inn in Pensacola.  Don’t go there.  Consider yourself warned.  If it wasn’t for the fact that I was so completely exhausted I would have refused to sleep here.  We walked into the room and it made the wet carpet of the HOJO seem like mints on a turned down bed. They didn’t even have one of those emergency escape route plans on the door.  How do these people get approved to be a hotel?

Dave opened the microwave:  Oh, a plug. (and promptly shut the microwave).

I thought it was weird.   A plug in the microwave?

Dave:  Yeah, a plug.

Me:  Can we plug your laptop in it?

Dave:  (looking at me like I was insane)  How about unplugging the alarm clock.

We all fell asleep after playing musical beds and then tossing and turning.  In the morning we woke up and all showered and got ready for another long day of driving.  All I’ll say about the bathroom is that I wish we all had brought flip flops.  As I turned back the covers of the bed that the big kids were sleeping in, the biggest cockroach I have ever seen came crawling out from the sheets.  I promptly screamed and then jumped onto the other bed.  And realized that the bug was in a bed screamed and jumped off the bed.

Dave:  it’s just a bug.  Kill it.

Me: (it was now my turn to look at him like he was completely insane)  You kill it.  And it was IN the bed!

Dave:  Should I put it in the microwave to join his friend?

Me:  What the heck are you talking about?!

Dave:  the bug, in the microwave.

Me:  You told me there was a plug in the microwave.

Dave:  Why would there be a plug inside a microwave?

Me:  I don’t know, but I asked you twice!  And why would we stay in a hotel with bugs!  I think I might be sick.

After a breakfast that I couldn’t enjoy because I was constantly looking around for bugs, we loaded ourselves back in the car and pushed on.

Dave:  What do you expect for $35 a night.

Me:  I expect a bug free room.

Hotels.com:  1

The Gaines’: 1

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I wish there was more to say about the drive into Florida.  The highlight of the day was calling around looking for the best deal on Disneyworld tickets.  Yes, I am really that much of a procrastinator.

No, the highlight of the day was probably buying the tickets to 5 days of Disney World, 1 day of Universal Studios and 2 days at Kennedy Center (for 7 people).  I thought that Dave might actually faint when the lady gave us the grand total.

Or maybe the highlight of the day would be when I took the kids to Babies R Us to buy a double stroller.  And I lost Nathaniel.  And they had to lock the doors and call a code Adam.  As I’m screaming his name in the store looking up and down all the aisles, all I can think is how the heck I’m going to explain to Dave that I lost our kid on vacation.  Turns out he was hiding underneath the strollers inside of the boxes.  Also, it turns out it wouldn’t be the last time we lost a kid on this vacation.

or maybe the highlight of the day would be when we went grocery shopping and I let the kids pick all of the crappy, processed, convenience food their little hearts desired.

or maybe the highlight of the day would be when the kids found out that our hotel had a Murphy bed.  Murphy bed=coolest thing ever to a 10 and under boy.

or when they saw the kitchen in our hotel room.

Mike: I think we should just live here forever!

or maybe the highlight of the day would be when the kids saw that our hotel had 3 pools, 2 game rooms and a laundry room.  I am so glad that we don’t have television.  This way they have nothing to compare it to.

Dave:  Let’s thank God for bringing us here safely and ask him to bless the rest of our trip.

Me:  Maybe we should also ask him to drive out any and all bugs within a 2 building radius.  At the very least, make them invisible.