OK so as posted earlier I have headed down to Texas to go to a wedding. I got down here fairly quickly, 3.5 hours, however Gary and his parents and Michael and Berry due to a car accident it took them over 6 hours for the trip. It took them 2 hours to go 5 miles in Fort Worth because of said wreck. So we start off on a rough foot.
Upon getting to the hotel Gary, Cathy and Bill discovered that apparently the one we were referred to was a glorified rat trap so we had to cancel and find a new room at a better hotel. However the better hotel is not that great either, room service closed at 10pm, hotel bar - a beer bar only - closed on a Friday at 11pm. We got to said bar at 10:45 and was completely ignored by the bartender so that she wouldn’t have to get us any drinks before she cashed out the drawer. We also saw a cockroach on the first floor (we are on the 6th). 14 people broke into the pool, they didn’t have a room at the hotel, to swim and goof off and steal the towels and was escorted out by security. The pool was murky not to mention one of the windows was shattered and covered by plywood. The jets in the hot tub were broken and there was gum stick to one side of it. The handle to make sure you safely get in and out of the hot tub moved like a boat rudder and I almost fell trying to get in using it and Joe sprained his ankle. Our sleep number bed doesn’t adjust and isn’t working. We saw an ant in our room and the toilet keeps backing up. The floor isn’t level, the ceiling is a mess, you can tell where they have tried to fix leaks. The chair in our room is broken on one of the legs so it wobbles. The Guy’s AC isn’t working so with it turned as low as it goes and with all the blinds pulled it’s like 73-76. And there is no coffee maker in the room and there should be.
For the record I truly hate Texas.
On top of all of this the construction down here is ridiculous not to mention the fact that you have to do like 3 u-turns to get anywhere if you are following directions given by mapquest or google maps. We went to a overpriced very pretentious restaurant that wasn’t worth the money we spent for food, mainly because it sucked and no alcohol. It was supposed to be the location for the rehearsal dinner and we were all under the assumption since we spent hundreds of dollars to come down to see our friend off for a wedding, that we would see him after the dinner. In all we saw him for maybe 20 minutes and tomorrow he is wanting to come over for a bar-b-q that starts and noon and will have all of his family and her family and so we still won’t be able to see our friend and we still have an almost four hour drive back home.
The way things are looking I think we are just going to bail tomorrow morning early in hopes we can be back in Oklahoma City by noon. I mean Gary and I still have to go finish off our old apartment and turn in the keys and take the rent check by the landlord. With the old place we still have to move the last of our stuff deep clean the whole place and clean the carpets. All after a four hour drive. Not fun covers most of that descriptor I think.
But if there was one good thing about this whole trip is getting to get on good ground with Michael and Berry and meeting Joe and Kim and actually talking and getting to know them. I would say it is worth the couple hundred we dropped just for that.
Well I am going to call it an night and quit bitching.
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