More on the trip

[stormkeeper_lovedoris]

 
I have time, so here's more...

- Tuesday, continued. I went to Take Flight and it was AMAZING!! Like a combo IMAX and rollercoaster. Like you are immersed in the IMAX. I would do it again! Then I ate at Sunny's Asian. Then the goal was to spend the afternoonn canvassing, but I couldn't. This turf I had....there were so sidewalks. No place to park your car. No way to safely walk on these 1 lane streets with cars always rushing by.  I kept driving from house to house, hoping I'd just found a bad section of the turf. But it was all like that. So I had to "call it". Drove to Rocky Arbor park and hiked, then checked in early to my hotel. Got a massage, ate a veggie burger at the hotel and called it a night.

- Did I complain about Monday's hotel feeling a little....desolate? So yeah, my next (and final) hotel Kalahari was not. It was SO noisy! You can hear your (loud ass) neighbors like only a sheet of paper separates you. You can hear people stomping down the hallway 24/7. By some miracle, I slept well though.

- But the best part? I get to go home a day early!! My coworker Haley and I set up the table this AM. We looked at the agenda. Tomorrow the booths are only open for 1 hour, so she told me to split today if I wanted to. YAY!!

- Other smaller things: I understood some Spanish that folks in the hallway said in passing. Also, this is sad but thank goodness the fire alarm in my building did not go off. Haley was not so lucky :(  (Another sidenote: Haley is an awesome person and it's been good to get to chat with her more)

Comments

[nytshd3]

So for the Take Flight place, do you strap in to the seat like a roller coaster? Or is it more like a traditional IMAX? I heard recently about a '4d' movie where they pipe in music, spray you with water, etc.

Bummer that the canvassing wasn't really an option, but awesome that you tried! And so nice of Haley to give you a chance to go home early. Woohoo! Have you worked with her a lot?

[stormkeeper_lovedoris]

Exactly, you are strapped in. It sounds like what you describe.

Haley is great. And oh yeah, it was so amazing to get to go home 1 day early!!

[rhoda_rants]

Oooh, Take Flight sounds really cool! I might have to check that out someday! I dunno how you canvas in a neighborhood like that though. I've seen places like that, and it just sounds completely antithetical to human dwelling, y'know?

Yikes--I would've lost my mind in a hotel like that! Glad you got some sleep in spite of it though. And yay for getting to come home early!

[stormkeeper_lovedoris]

Exactly. No sidewalks, not even a shoulder on the street, no way to get anywhere on foot. Ugh.

It is crazy how noisy many hotels are. I am considering buying a fancy white noise machine. Of course it needs to be small so it can travel easily.

[rhoda_rants]

I feel like they're out there--travel-sized white noise machines--because it's such an issue. Hotels are weird, it so often depends on what day you're there.

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