Yes we are back in Louisiana this week and probably for the next month! I don't mind because we like the river and the casinos. We always find things to do and see and plenty of places to eat. Our whole crew loves it here and we all have a good time visiting and eating out together.
We arrived Tuesday morning about 9:00 am. That is the time we were suppose to start work...and barely made it. Not to worry most all the other team members were also late in arriving so nothing was said about our late arrival.
We put in our time and then headed over to the hotel to check in and get settled in our new room. We got our cards from the desk and went up the elevator to check out our new home for the week. We were one floor below our room last week...which by the way we had requested for this time too. I noticed that the AC was not performing as it should and the room was rather hot. About the time I noticed that and was about to push some buttons there was a knock at the door. Sherri went to the door and met the maintenance man. He said that they had just checked a man out of this room because the AC was not working. He wanted to know if we were having a problem. I told him yes and that we needed to have another room. We contacted the desk after he failed to get our AC to come on and soon we were moving up stairs to another room.
OK now we are in another room with an ice cold AC unit that Sherri wanted turned off as soon as we got in the room. She did all her disinfecting and cleaning. We told our friends Becky and Rick that we had moved and asked if they wanted to go and eat. We decided to eat downstairs at the restaurant. This way we did not have to give up our good parking place. I did not really want to drive anyway so all was good...until we ordered our food and waited and waited and waited for our meal to come out. We waited for about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Now normally I would never wait this long for a meal but we had got to talking and ate a salad and had some drinks and before we knew it we had been setting there for some time with no food in sight.
I motioned to the waitress and informed her that we were on our way out due to the fact that we had to eat before 9:00 pm. Out the door we went and found ourselves headed for Sam's Casino and the buffet. It was close to 8:30 by this time and we finally got some food. I sure was glad to eat after waiting so long.
Not all was well, however seeing as how after we ate and climbed back in the truck I took the wrong turn out of the parking garage and bingo was lost down town on one way street that were all going the wrong way. We finally got on the right road to take us back to the hotel only to find a train blocking that road with a long wait to boot.
OK it was getting on to bed time when I finally got the truck turned around and found another route to the hotel and got us parked for the evening. It did not take me long to get my shower and climb into bed. I was fast asleep...
Somewhere in Time
3 comments:
HI there. Sounds like you all had quite a night. Sometimes it just happens like that.
Enjoy Louisiana. We don't expect to get back that way until close to Christmas unless Len's Mom takes a turn for the worse.
Sounds like an interesting evening, I love getting lost, not.
Stay Safe
I hate waiting for meals. If they're overly busy we go somewhere else. Good you got a cool room, it's a hot summer (again). I'm catching up on blogs, good to see you posted.
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