Isle 1/28/13 Deuces
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:00 am
Sweet C hit this beauty early on. Thank goodness since it was our best hit of the trip. But, what a trip!
Played long, hard and really late Sunday night so we opted to stay over Monday to sleep. One of us slept until 1:00 pm, one of us still got up early and only got 3 hours of sleep. Monday night we put in another 8 hour session and headed to bed around midnight.
As a retired school principal, I still have an alertness to security issues/strange situations and as I went to bed I thought I heard a fire alarm. Maybe it was just the extra set of ears educators develop. But, pretty good for an old fart who probably needs hearing aides.
Of course Sweet C is already dead asleep. Minutes passed, I kept thinking I am hearing something. Got redressed and went into the hall to check. Heard the alarm but not on our floor. So I called the front desk. I was told a possible false alarm was sounding on the 7th floor-security was checking. Undressed and back to bed. Ten minutes later security comes down the hall knocking on each door shouting to get dressed and evacuate the building via the stairwells. Woke up Sweet C and we dressed, grabbed her book, my ipad, and jackets and headed for the stairs. OK, so we love the top floor of the hotel, the rooms are quieter since less people stay on the floor, housekeeping is usually the best at staying quiet since the rooms are usually host comped, and the views are better. I kept reminding myself all of this as we walked down all 10 floors-my knees aching the whole way. We made our way to the garage through the fire crews and other guests and sat in our vehicle watching the action. Around 1:45 we finally were given the all clear.
Thank you Otis Tufts and Elisha Otis for inventing and perfecting the elevator-my knees appreciate it and so does who does Sweet C who....gets tired of me complaining about stairs.
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Played long, hard and really late Sunday night so we opted to stay over Monday to sleep. One of us slept until 1:00 pm, one of us still got up early and only got 3 hours of sleep. Monday night we put in another 8 hour session and headed to bed around midnight.
As a retired school principal, I still have an alertness to security issues/strange situations and as I went to bed I thought I heard a fire alarm. Maybe it was just the extra set of ears educators develop. But, pretty good for an old fart who probably needs hearing aides.
Of course Sweet C is already dead asleep. Minutes passed, I kept thinking I am hearing something. Got redressed and went into the hall to check. Heard the alarm but not on our floor. So I called the front desk. I was told a possible false alarm was sounding on the 7th floor-security was checking. Undressed and back to bed. Ten minutes later security comes down the hall knocking on each door shouting to get dressed and evacuate the building via the stairwells. Woke up Sweet C and we dressed, grabbed her book, my ipad, and jackets and headed for the stairs. OK, so we love the top floor of the hotel, the rooms are quieter since less people stay on the floor, housekeeping is usually the best at staying quiet since the rooms are usually host comped, and the views are better. I kept reminding myself all of this as we walked down all 10 floors-my knees aching the whole way. We made our way to the garage through the fire crews and other guests and sat in our vehicle watching the action. Around 1:45 we finally were given the all clear.
Thank you Otis Tufts and Elisha Otis for inventing and perfecting the elevator-my knees appreciate it and so does who does Sweet C who....gets tired of me complaining about stairs.
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