Saturday, September 10, 2011

First Night

So the movers have finally come and gone.  Our home is completely empty, except the few things we still have to either pack, throw away or give away.  We are staying our first night in a nice hotel in Fairbanks, close to many of the fun things we like to do.  After doing a little preliminary cleaning at our old home, we drove over in both vehicles, Jenny driving the van with all the bikes in the back, and me driving the motor home.  We first stopped at Ben's friend Gabriel's house.  He had gone with him to run errands while we finished up at the house.

I drove Beka and Ben in the RV, stopping to fill up 42 gallons of gasoline at Fred Meyer while Jenny checked in at the hotel.  Apparently, they hadn't saved two rooms with a conjoining door as we had requested, but they only had two options with conjoining doors available, both in handicapped rooms.  The attendant got permission from his manager and finally was able to place us in two rooms connected, a single king and one with two queens.  The ironic thins is that it is actually perfect for us, setting Jonathan's crib in the room with just a king bed.  The extra space afforded by the handicapped rooms is nice for us as well.

After Beka, Ben and I finished unloading the supplies we will be needing for the next ten nights (involving filling the hotel dolly once for the van and once for the motor home), Jenny stayed upstairs with Jonathan while the rest of us went downstairs to try out the swimming pool.  The pool was not too cool and not too hot, and we were the only ones in the pool for the next hour, allowing the kids to make some noise and play.  Next time we go, we should bring a beach ball the kids received from the Big Apple Adventure VBS they attended this summer.

Rebekah and Kimberly watch television in their hotel room in Fairbanks.

Then, we came back upstairs to our hotel room suite, where Papa John's came first with the wrong room's order and later with our correct order.  Everyone ate too much pizza and we had more to spare.  Then, the kids watched the end of the Princess Bride and later a documentary about the history of Manhattan, designed to be boring and put them to sleep.  Rebekah was the only one able to last too the end, nonetheless it succeeded in its purpose.

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