We went to Utah to visit. Wesley had a Poster accepted at a conference in Utah and so his work paid for him to attend the conference, stay at a hotel, and eat great food. We decided to make it a fun family vacation. It was amazing as we got to stay in the amazing Grand America Hotel in Downtown SLC...very luxurious! See:
FYI, the balcony with the open drapes in the middle is our room.
Before I show you all the fun pics, I must tell you the horror of getting there. I do not remember all the details of that happened through Wyoming, but we were stuck for a long time somewhere in Wyoming (was that the time we were on the side of the road in a place with no bathrooms for 5 hours? Yeah...I think that was the one). BUT we HAD to make it to Utah that night because Wes had to set up his poster at the conference EARLY the next morning.
By the time we made in to the Grand America, it was about midnight. Wes went in to pay (you have to put all the stuff on your Credit Card then submit all reciepts for reimbursement when you get home for his work). He was in there a while and came out furious as the Credit Card would not work. I immediately called them to fight, btu as it was the middle of the night and they were LOW staffed, it took like 45 minutes just to get through to someone after which I learned they flagged it as an unusually high charge on a hardly used card. SO, I just had to go through some additional hassles over the next hour on the phone with them before they would let us charge our hotel.
So, around 2 am we finally got to our wonderfully luxurious hotel room ney suite. See these pictures below:
Beautiful, no?! Yeah we thought so too. BUT as many of you know, our Solace gets REALLY car/motion sick. SO far we had been good that day. We put everyone in bed and settled in, then Solace rolled over and projectile vomitted all over between the 2 beds (it went so far it got all over me as well). Oh gross...so we called for help as we did not have any supplies to fix this problem, and guess what? It took them until about 3:30 am to get someone up there to help (I was pissed). We all hung out in the tv/couch room in the mean time and tried to rest. It was a rocky start to what turned out to be a great vacation.
Here are pictures around the hotel:
Well-are you pictured out yet?! Cause this is just the first of many picture posts to come...Booh Yeah!
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