Sunday, July 04, 2010

(SET) FORTH OF JULY

 

We left the house at 8 am (we planned to live at 7) and was on the road at 9.  The weather is perfect. After hurricane Alex comes a gorgeous weather fit for strolling. With a few glitch and misrouted trail (again) we arrived at San Marcos at around 11 am. While we are having lunch over spaghetti and Dibbs, Mom started shopping.

Understandably, both shopping complex (Prime Outlet and Tanger) were swarmed with people “celebrating July 4th” when the clock hit 12 noon.

One is really overwhelmed with the enormous number of stores sprawled in more than 10 acres. Shoppers from as far as Mexico come in droves.  Thanks for the heat of Texas, it slows you down from going store to store.

At around 6, we left San Marcos. The gas was so high at 2.65 a gallon. But we have no option.

We were quiet excited to rest our tired bodies that we jumped out of Sienna right after we parked. Hoping (as logical as it should be) for a coozier room we lined up to check in. Once we got our key, we excitedly hopped in the elevator for room 415. Right after the green light on I pushed the door and was quite dismayed that the room was smaller than what we have in Holiday Express, right across the street. There was no “sala” and there was only 1 TV compared to 2 in the previous hotel.  The worse was, there was still an occupant in the said room. We hurriedly went out and closed the door praying that no one saw us coming out.

We stormed down the conceirged hoping for a reasonalbe explaination…and an upgrade. Feeling apologetic, Hector gave us another room, this time at the second floor. Hopeing that this time they got it right, we opened the door. “Viola”, what comes in front of our amazement was the sight of the aircondition cover set on the bed.

This time, Jaz grabbed the key and was fuming mad. Without waiting for her turn, he confronted Hector, demanded to see the manager and asked Hector to go and check the room for us before the key is turned over to us.

Third is a charm could be true because this time, except for a few glitches with the key, we were able to open and get it. The room was relatively clean, smaller but complete with the needed necessities for a good night sleep.

Slowly, we settled down, brought up our stuffs and finish our dinner. We quire quite please with the room, yet you can’ t help but compare.

Just as after we were done with our dinner, we found out that the room has no refrigerator.

A nice way of celebrating 4th of July.

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