Hotels

Ok I don't know about everyone else, but when my family goes on vacation we are pretty frugal. A testament of this would be our hotel rooms. With our family of seven we're suppose to get two rooms, but does that ever really happen? Yeah right. My parents get a bed, my sister and I get a bed, and the three little ones get to camp out on the floor. They don't mind. I'm sure by the time they do I'll be gone off to college and then no one will miss me on family vacations. :'( haha well in the meantime that is how we vacation and I have some pretty great memories of us sneaking people into hotel rooms. Last fall when we went to Disneyland we almost got caught. This was actually the vacation of hotel hopping. We were staying in California for five days and during that time slept in three different hotels. This madness ensued because we had enough points to stay at certain places for free, but only for a small amount of time. I think it was the first hotel that they almost caught us. My dad checked in and we started entering the hotel in small groups that didn't seem to be associated; Megan and Dad, Me and Valerie, Mom and the boys. Our room smelt really bad. It was obvious that a smoker had been staying there before us. We received a new room, but while transporting all of our stuff the hotel staff seemed to catch on. The real suspiciousness happened when my mom started bringing up stroller loads of food. I admit it was a ton of food and the hotel brought in some "complimentary water bottles and fruit" after she had made the first trip. Megan and I were able to dash into the bathroom before the delegation of detectives (oooo alliteration! :D) entered to see my parents and their three little kids bouncing off the walls. I guess it settled most of their suspicion because they didn't question us the rest of the time we were there. That wasn't the first time I've found myself hiding in the bathroom from hotel employees and I don't think it will be the last.

Our most recent vacation was to a resort in Southern California that wanted my parents to take place in a time share. My dad usually lies about our interest in such things and says we have a family of four, but this time he admitted to having five children and never vacationing in such a way. The resort assured him they just needed people to fill the sales pitch, so we went. We were finally taking a vacation with enough bed space for everyone in our family! Or so we thought.... With all this extra room my mom invited her sister's family of 6. Yes, the room was very big. It had a kitchenette, living room, and two bedrooms. Yes, we still smuggled more people into our room than was allowed. *face-palm* I guess some things never change. Finding an appropriate parking place for the extra car and extra wrist bands to the pool was a little difficult, but we got by everything just fine and it was fun spending three days on the beach with our cousins.

Today I'm leaving for another vacation, but this one is girls only with some friends of ours and maybe this hotel room will hold us all. ;)