Hart Family News: BYU or Bust

Monday, July 30, 2012

BYU or Bust

BYU or Bust

1. Got Marisa all packed up and ready for college. I must admit Bob said we would fit it all and I had very serious doubts. He was correct. Thanks to the giant bag we had on top of the car. You should have seen the effort it took to get it up there.

2. Day 1- we traveled from Cedar Rapids to Paxton, Nebraska. A long and very boring drive. Thank goodness for the humor of Brian Regan and Redbox!

3. The kids travel SO MUCH BETTER when they are older! A lot less fighting, whining, crying, etc.

4. Day 2- we traveled from Paxton, Nebraska to Provo, Utah. We were able to stop by Missy and Clark’s to say hi, have a wonderful dinner, and drop off most of Marisa’s stuff.

5. I will say we have a real knack for picking out quality hotels. (read this with as much drippy sarcasm as possible). We have a history of hideousness. Basically it comes down to hotels are so dang expensive and most only take 4 to a room. So, we can usually only get ones with a green slime pool, etc.

Today I think we topped it. We got Knight Inn in Provo. We found a place that would take 6 people and actually had 3 queen size beds as well as a glorious pool (see the pic on website). When we got here, 1^st thing we see is that the pool has been declared closed by the County Health Inspector. Lovely. Then we find that they gave away all 3 of those 3 bed bedrooms! Dude! We reserved that! Then we see the actual hotel….I guarantee you NO actual knights would ever stay here. They gave us 2 rooms for the price of one (since they botched our reservations). They are like old apartments from the 1960s. A fist through the wall, cigarette burns on the bedding….Alayna even said, “Ok so we have established that this hotel totally sucks right? Can we leave now?”

Then to top it all, Bob went to go get something from the car so we left the door part way open. Suddenly some lady walks in like she owns the place, then realizes she has the wrong room, then apologizes and leaves. Oh my.

6. Tomorrow will be a full “Get Marisa set up and oriented to BYU” day. Wish us luck!