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Lancecrossfire

Saturday, April 06, 2002 - 11:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tess--so sorry to hear of your run in with the staff and especially the smoking room. Them not adjusting your bill immediately is not the norm based on my travels for work.

I hope you are feelig better now that you are in a non-smoking area. It sounds like you, Charlie and Sarah are having a great trip. Continue to enjoy your travels and the people you get to meet.

Stay safe please.

Donut

Saturday, April 06, 2002 - 11:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
gee what if the hotel got 300 emails from a certain website about this...you just give the word and you know we would do it!:)

Soeur

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 12:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hi Tess. It was great reading about your drive and visit with relatives. The part about your problems at the hotel was unfortunate. Wouldn't fogging the room also have given you other problems breathing? At least you are in a better room. It is a hassle to have to pursue but you will probably cause them to shape up and spare someone else a similar problem by getting the hotel management to remediate this. Keep on truckin'

Oh! while you were gone I figured out how to post animations :)

smilefortess

Webkitty

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 04:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
{{{{TESS}}}} Just reading of your bad experience made my blood boil!
There is absolutly no excuse for rude behavior by a person that works in the service industry. ESPECIALLY when it concerns the health of the person on the consumer end.
I hope you can shake off the phyical effects of this and continue on your trip with the same good note you have been.
I believe you when you said kept your temper and rationed your way through the problem. It will serve you well when you have to contact the proper personell on Monday.
Do me a favor and give those little snots at the front desk who were rude to you a piece of your mind as your checking out and let them squirm the rest of the weekend!
Off with their heads!! ~wicked~ Webkitty over and out

Llkoolaid

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 05:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree with Donut, so if you don't get satisfaction just say the word.

Gail

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 10:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I will be in St Petersburg, Florida this week for two days of training for work. I am flying from Colorado to Tampa via a layover in Houston tomorrow and the same route back on Thursday. I am lucky enough to be staying on the beach in a really great hotel. The hotel is on 35 acres and has miles of beachfront! I can't wait to walk along the beach. I haven't seen an ocean for 4 years. I just love the feel and sound of the surf at night.

I am looking forward to eating all the crab legs my poor hand can handle. I really needed another month of physical therapy to crack crab legs but my therapist said it would be good for me to do anyways. In the case of crab legs, there is no such thing as too much of a good thing. If worse comes to worse, there is always shrimp. In Colorado, there is a short supply of good seafood so I just want to enjoy it while I am there.

I am looking forward to 3 days of nice weather and this will be my first time flying in over 3 years.

Soeur

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 11:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Have a great time Gail.

would these help you crack crab:
seascissors

Gail

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 11:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
They might help a little. I look at it this way. In PT, they have what I call the torture rack - it is 4 rows of about 100 clothes pins with different tensions that they make me pinch off and move to another steel rod. Then I have to move them all back. If I can make it through those clothespins, I can make it through crab legs. :)

Egbok

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 11:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Gail, enjoy the long walks on the beach, the relaxing sound of the surf meeting the turf and ask the restaurant folks to crack your crabs for you - I bet they'll accommodate you and your wrist.

Hope the training part goes smoothly too!! Take care.

Wargod

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 01:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gail, have a great trip!

Urgrace

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 02:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tess, I just have to ask... what hotel are you staying in? Come on give us the name for future reference. If the manager does not compensate you or do the right thing, you can tell the manager that all your friends worldwide will hear about their company's mistake and will not use their services. At the hotel I worked for, if that kind of thing happened, not only would the customer be compensated in some way but the offending persons would be in jeopardy of losing their jobs, AnD the hotel would be in jeopardy of losing bonuses too!

Gail, enjoy your flying trip and seafood. Good luck with those pesky crab crackers!

Soeur

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 02:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tess, at least do a wheel-of-fortune thing and fill in some letters...

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ ??????

Lancecrossfire

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 03:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gail, have a great time during your week away. Enjoy the beach and the ocean. Hope to hear from you on this thread, but if not, it will be great to hear from you when you get back about how the week went for you.

Spygirl

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 03:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gail, I hope that you aren't flying into Houston too early tomorrow. The weather doesn't look terribly promising for flights headed east.

Buttercup

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 03:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gail, sounds like you are going to have a great time :)

By the way, Queen Zed had a layover in Houston on her way to the Olympics. A TVCH Representative met her there for lunch. There are opportunities. I'm just sayin'...

Buttercup gives Merlin a friendly poke

Buttercup

Gail

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 04:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Spygirl, it okay, I love stormy weather. And if I get stuck in Houston for a couple of hours, that's not necessarily a bad thing. :)

I'll let you all know how it is from my hotel in Florida. No, alas I don't have a laptop but the hotel has internet computers available for use. Imagine that? Going on a training vacation and having access to a computer to say hi to you guys here. Isn't life just great? The last time I made this trip I don't think there were computers in hotels to use.

Buttercup, you're funny!!

Merlin

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 05:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks for the friendly poke Buttercup but this was already under negotiation.

The weather gods are conveniently cooperating for tomorrow which allow me to take off work at an extremely busy time. Not only that but Gail is negotiating for a later departure from Houston to give more time to visit. Who was it that said Houston wasn't the best place to live?

Gail

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 05:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It must have been the rain dance I did! :)

Buttercup

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 06:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Merlin, I had a feeling you wouldn't pass up another opportunity to meet yet another TVCH female I am not buying for a second that you would have let the weather stop you--I'm thinking your just like the postman--rain or shine, nuttin' will stop you

I hope you both have a great time! As usual, we do of course expect a report from the visit :)

Buttercup wonders if Juju still has the white surveillance van in the area

Buttercup

Juju2bigdog

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 08:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
(gasses up van)

Tess

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 09:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Juju, any action on camera 7 yet? Just say the word and I can be down to Houston in a flash!!

Gail, I hope you have a wonderful time at the beach. :)

Hotel name: ___r__a_d _y _a__i__t. They will be hearing from me in the morning. I will be starting with guest relations and believe me, I have names, including the name of the woman in housekeeping who was so nice. I figure if I'm going to get at least 3 people in serious trouble I should also make sure the person who did all she could to help gets recognized as well.:)

Tonight we are in Fairfax, VA. We arrived much later than anticipated due to the closure of a stretch of HWY 29 in VA. We're not sure what happened but there were a lot of state troopers and rescue vehicles.

We had a wonderful day today. The weather was beautiful so after church we all went to my inlaws' for lunch and then Charlie and his brother took all the kids to the park. I went with my mother in law and sister in law to an enormous bookfair way out in the country. They had over 500,000 books which were 50-90% off retail. Some were one of a kind while there were stacks of other titles. I got a book for Charlie, many books for Sarah and 3 books about Korean life for myself. Since Sarah is Korean, I try to read as much as I can get my hands on regarding Korean culture, history and life in general so I can tell her whatever she wants to know when she asks questions.

After we all arrived back at my inlaws' we had another big dinner, then came the goodbyes. It was the best visit we've ever had. We think that was because there were only 2 brothers (inc. charlie) there with their families which meant only 10 of us instead of the usual 20-30 people in the same house. All the kids had a great time with each other and I just blew off any annoying remarks by my mother in law. :) My father in law is a dear. Everyone loves him.

I'm not sure what we're doing tomorrow but on Tuesday afternoon we're going into D.C. to show Sarah another of the monuments (we took her to the Lincoln Memorial and Korean War Memorial 2 years ago) and then we're going to visit another of Charlie's brothers who lives in Maryland. We'll be there for dinner Tuesday. He and his wife have 4 girls aged 9 - 14 whom we just adore. This trip is great because we're getting to see all of our favorite relatives separately which gives us time to really visit. Sarah is getting to know her cousins without being so overwhelmed as past visits.

Tomorrow I hope to explore a bit of the historic section of Fairfax which is where my friends' house is located. We didn't get to see any of it last time we were here.

I hope you all had a good weekend! Juju, Spy and Butter-we'll be back on the road on Wednesday as we race down to see Zed and Greydawg!! Can't wait. :)

Wargod

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 09:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How come everyone is getting such great deals on books lately, but me? ARGH! LOL. Tess, sounds like you had a wonderful day. That is so nice, for you, Charlie, and Sarah.

Juju2bigdog

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 10:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tess, nothing on camera 7 thus far. We are expecting some activity tomorrow. I'll let you know if you are going to need to be activated.

Tess, have you been to the arboretum near the Capitol building? That is quite lovely and tranquil. Library of Congress? Go for the ceiling. Too late for cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin? I LOVE D.C.

Donut

Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 11:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Are you going to the smithsonian? Wave to my dad for me- he's in D.C.....Should smell great there- the cherry blossoms are probably blooming around now...

Twiggyish

Monday, April 08, 2002 - 07:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tess, good for you. You survived your mother-in-law..LOL

It's sounds like you are having a nice time.


Now trying to figure out your hotel name.