Postby Kathryn-in-Canada » Sun Mar 17, 2019 9:02 am
Before I soar, we have a busy day here.
We said good-bye to all our family last night so we're free today to do a couple of things.
First morning routine. My tea tray arrived at 7 but I took until 7:20 to haul myself out of bed and pull it into the room. Each morning I receive a thermos of hot water, two cups, two sets of tea, milk, sugar and mugs, plus two pieces of biscotti (which is delicious!) A nice little bit of something to help me wake up gently.
I don't have to wash my hair this morning but I will have to deal with the uneven water temp in the shower to wash off my body. It is one of those dual showers, rainfall from above and a wand on a height adjustable holder that has great force. I love that but the water pressure in this antique hotel means the temperature alternates between just under scalding and ice water.
Thankfully, it starts at the just under scalding so when it turns to ice I can nudge up the lever with my foot as I cower at the end of the tub out of the flow of water, and then when it starts to get too hot push it down with my hand. Still, it is a challenge except both days the temperature changed when I got to the 'wash body while conditioner works in hair' stage of the shower. So today I should be in and out before I run into problems.
After I'm dressed, we'll pack and then breakfast. We'll check out, leaving our stuff at with the front desk. We'll be out of here by 9:45 and get to the train museum by 10. At noon we'll leave there and walk to the planetarium for the 1 p.m. show. Then grab a taxi to the hotel, pick up our suitcases and if everything goes according to my plan (the big issue is picking up a taxi/rideshare quickly), we'll be to the airport for 2:30.
We're already checked in and have no baggage to check so we'll go straight through security and likely have an hour or more in the lounge.
The only problem I see in there is that I won't have any time to eat lunch and we are in the air on a plane without hot food for dinner. The choices of places to eat at in the airport are pathetic, so that's the downside to this plan. I have protein bars and there will be some snack food in the lounge so I won't starve, but I might be uncomfortable. On the other hand, over the past 3 days I've consumed more than an extra day's worth of calories so maybe that can hold me over. There's a burger place in our airport we can eat at before going home.
Last night for dinner, I had just the garden salad, plus 2 rolls since I had grazed all afternoon at the reception. The food was amazing there, beef wellington bites, chicken skewers, asparagus in puff pastry, a beef carvery, fruit and veggies (there was way more, that's just what I had.) So the salad was all I needed for dinner.
It has been a food oriented weekend. We have yet to buy a meal since leaving home. Between lounge food for lunch and an extraordinary breakfast buffet included in our hotel rate, Ken's aunt and uncle footed the bill for every other meal.
Dh's phone has stopped working, won't charge (and fully discharged overnight) and may be dying. A reboot isn't working so factory reset is the last chance for it. It is very old for a cell phone (we'd bought him a Note 8 a few years ago but returned it because it wouldn't work with swapping SIMs) and this could be its end.
Dh absolutely requires a cell phone next Saturday so I will probably order something today so it will arrive before he leaves. I was planning on him traveling with my second phone (he needs a European and NA SIM for the next trip and his is not a dual-SIM phone so we do have a backup but he really needs a new phone. My old phone is bare-bones and will just run a browser, messaging and maybe email. There's no room for music or games or other apps like WhatsApp on it.