Cleveland Trip - the Hotels Tour

As you can imagine, we had the opportunity to stay at a few different hotels as we drove to and from Cleveland. The nicest hotel was the Chicago Hilton with its luxurious rooms and ornate architectural details. Of course I didn't notice HOW ornate it was until a cleaning lady gave us quite a stare as we sat eating our chicago hotdogs and popcorn on the floor outside our room to allow Braden to sleep...

The hotel that suited us the best was the Residence Inn where we stayed for the 2 weeks that Aaron was in class in Cleveland. There we had 2 bedrooms, a kitchen, dining area and living room - keeping us a little safer from censure during naptime.

But the most interesting hotel by far, was the one we found at the end of our first long day (see earlier blog) at a Colorado resort. The area was beautiful - set in the mountains surrounded by snow capped pine trees with a lovely view of a frozen lake. And although the hotel was older, when we went inside we were amazed to find a beautiful gas fireplace. So why "interesting" and not "amazing"? Simple, I averaged the thoughts I had about it that night. I thought it was amazing when I first saw the gas fireplace. I thought it was interesting when I turned up the thermostat and the gas fireplace came on as the room's only heat source. And I thought it was irritating as the night wore on and the fireplace woke us up repeatedly as it blazed into action to heat he room 1-2 degrees before it would cut off and wait to perform its duty again in a few minutes. Interesting. Very interesting ...