Adventures in Haglerland: Weekend Wedding Fun

We were in Houston this weekend for my cousin's wedding - my youngest cousin - wow makes me feel old that he is old enough to get married, well that and I turn 30 in 4 days, so that makes me feel old too.

Staying in a hotel with 2 kids is ~~a terrible idea~~ interesting. Particularly it is interesting with one kid who likes a night light, and one kid who likes it totally dark, and a husband who wants to watch TV because well, it is only 10pm... In the end it all worked out though, and everyone slept in their designated locations - Jake on the chair (the first night, floor the second), Travis in the Pack-N-Play, and Mama and Daddy in the King bed (the first night, separate beds the second when we had to move rooms... see below).

I can not however actually recommend the hotel which we stayed at. It was a decent hotel and all, but well, we had some issues. We checked in, got all settled, explored the hotel, and then went back to the room to get ready before heading to the rehearsal dinner. Well, I go in to take a shower, and the handle says "Pull Out", so I follow the directions, and I tug and tug on it, and there is no way that this thing is going to "pull out". So I go to enlist help from Blake. He tells me that likely he will either get it to turn on instantly (making me feel the total fool), or he will totally break the handle off. Well, he totally broke the handle off - and I don't just mean it was loose and he pulled it off and we needed to get it re-fastened, I mean that there was a black plastic piece which a screw went through to make it work correctly, and both the black plastic piece and the screw were completely broken in half... half in the handle, half still on the wall.

So, we call the front desk and let them know that our shower doesn't work, and we need maintenance, and that we'll be out for a few hours, so it would be convenient to come then. Well we leave, go to the rehearsal dinner, have a lovely time, and come back to the hotel about 9:30pm. And... there is no sign that anyone has been in the room to even look at the shower (like the handle is in the same place). So we call again, and they say that they'll send someone right up. Surprise, surprise, they don't send anyone to the room. So we go to bed and resolve to shower at my parent's room the next morning (thank goodness we knew other people staying in the hotel - can't even imagine how upset we would be with this if we couldn't have showered). We go by the front desk in the morning on our way out again and tell them (for the third time), that our shower head is broken, that we have called twice, and that no-one has done anything about it. They assure us that it will be taken care of while we are out during the day.

So we head into town to see our good friends Jon and Ashley, and their absolutely perfect baby boy Caden, and we have a wonderful time. We do find out that Travis unfortunately is going to be able to open closed doors about a year earlier than Jake figured it out - partially due to the fact that our new house will have lever hardware, and the current one doesn't, and Travis sure figured that out this weekend. Oh well!

When we get back to the hotel, guess what - yeah, nothing at all had changed, so Blake goes down to the front desk, and when he returns he tells me that we are changing rooms, and that we have free breakfast coupons for the next morning. (Apparently he is a better negotiator to get things done than I am - no real surprise there though). So we throw everything in the Pack-N-Play, and move rooms and floors. (If you have ever traveled with 2 small children, you know how much ~~crap~~ stuff we had which needed to come with us, if not well let me assure you, it is a lot of stuff).

In the new room, I go to throw the boys in the bath and... yeah there is no stopper for the tub. We end up using one of the glass hotel cups, and turn it upside down to keep as much of the water as possible in the tub (and still we had to run the water while they were in there for the majority of the bath to keep it somewhat filled, and the boys decently warm). But it got the job done, and we were tired of complaining (since apparently most of our complaints fell on deaf ears anyway).

The wedding was beautiful though, and we had a fantastic time dancing and visiting with family. The hotel breakfast bar ($15/person to the normal guest, free for us with the coupons) was nothing special, and I was glad that we didn't have to shell out the money for it. And since you made it this far, below are the photos from the weekend: