Spring Break!
Dear Melissa,So I'll probably take this home and post it on our blog first, but I decided that since you weren't here, I'd work in letter format.
Let's just say this holiday has not started out smoothly. Oh, Clare's flight came in on time and I was there waiting for her, and we only hit a little traffic on the way out of LA, and we managed to find the hotel okay.
Then the clerk informed me that my hotel room had been paid for last night. I'd booked the wrong night. Fun. $130 down the drain. The guy at the desk said he felt sorry for us, so he pulled some strings and got us the room we requested for another $130. We can call and talk to his manager on Monday, who might hopefully refund our money minus a $50 cancellation fee. I love making expensive mistakes.
So after perusing the hotel "Dining and Destinations" magazine, Clare insisted that we eat at a place across from the pier because of the title: Eladio's. (Eladio! You are the chulpacabra!) It was nice. I ordered the dinner special of a crunchy minnestroni soup followed by veal cannanoli and a canolli for dessert. Clare had an Angus Burger with garlic parsley fries. She grimaced when I ordered ice tea with my dinner.
Man, I totally forgot to mention our detour. The main drag of Santa Barbara is State Street, and we managed to drive about 10 minutes in the wrong direction, because it parallels the beach before hooking towards the ocean and ending at the pier. We finally realized our mistake and turned around. Though apparently, there seems to be this thing in Santa Barbara for naming hotels after trees: Pepper Tree Inn, Orange Tree Inn, Lemon Tree Inn, and Treehouse Inn - all on State Street. Ours is the Sandpiper Lodge - a standard motel.
Still cringing over my mistake. Which is funny, because I regularly spend that much on a grocery run. Anyway, Clare's asleep and it's almost ten. Then I'll join her.
posted by omouse @ 10:01 PM
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