| Aug. 5th, 2008 @ 05:48 pm Honeymoon Update |
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I have a few minutes here on the Honeymoon... so I'll update!
So far... the honeymoon could use a little help. We drove all the way to New Jersey yesterday (10 hour drive plus stops). We were almost to Philly when we hit a traffic jam at midnight. We're still not sure what happened... I think a semi got in an accident and caught fire... but traffic was stopped in both directions for an hour.
The directions we had were perfect... until New Jersey. Signs said different things... the roads are confusing. We got fairly lost for a while. We ended up in what seemed like a not so nice part of town being patrolled by cops. Then with help from the hotel on the phone we finally found our hotel... only to have to go past it. Apparently you're not allowed to turn left on this street... at all. They forgot to mention that they aren't ambiturners here in New Jersey. We went quite a way with "no turn" signs at every intersection, so we couldn't even pull a modified Michigan left! Finally we just broke the law and did a U-turn. Horray for no cops on that street.
Once we got to the hotel we find out that the king bed room that we reserved and pre-paid for isn't available. I had called earlier in the day to say we'd be late, and they said they wouldn't give our room away. But they did.
The night supervisor, James Brown (seriously!) was incredibly rude and ended up putting us in a really crappy "standard" bed room. The hotel is under construction (a fact they failed to put online) and he gave us an unfinished room! AHHHHH!
Also, since we got a special deal online they already have our money... and there are no refunds. So we had to stay. Whatever.
Today started out better. We talked to the hotel personnel today who were very apologetic and switched us to the correct room right away. So much nicer. It actually has all the furniture it's supposed to... and a BIG BED!
We had lunch at a Chick-fil-A (Yeah Beki!!!) which was very good. McD's totally stole the idea for the southern style chicken from them.
We decided to head over to Philly on the train. Simple enough. We get to the train station, which is across the street... but took us forever to get to because there are NO LEFT TURNS ANYWHERE!!! AHHHHHHHHHH! Once there we bought our tickets at 1:50. Then we checked on when the next train would come (we really should have looked first). The next train was at 3:52. Urgh. So we went back to the hotel to figure out the train/bus situation and look up a nice place in Philly to have dinner.
So we had a plan, tickets, and know how to get to the station. We were ready for the train at 3:40, as were a ton of other people.
The train slid in at 3:50 and let a bunch of people off. The conductors were telling people to stand back while the other riders got off the train. So we stood back. No one got on the train. The conductors were still giving the "stand back" signal with their hands and talking to each other. Then they just got back on the train, the doors closed... and they left.
There were about 10 of us all standing there going, "What the fuck?!?!!" Some guy who had sweat dripping off him had booked it over to make the train... he was SOOOO ticked. At this point Rob and I just walked away. We'd had it. The next train wasn't for another hour. We didn't really want to be in Philly at night. Not worth it.
So now we're just going to hit up the Red Hot & Blue restaurant (Aaron's suggestion) and then reward ourselves for not hurting any of the stupid people we have encountered by going for dessert at the Cheesecake Factory. Let's see if we can accomplish this.
But for now... Rob and I have decided New Jersey needs a new slogan. It's no longer the Garden State.
New Jersey... America's Asshole. |
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