Embarking soon

Checked into my room, started putting away my luggage. The cabin is larger than my dinky hotel room last night.

Speaking of that: stayed at the Roosevelt Hotel on 7th Ave, along with several other member of our clan. Around 1 am (3 am according to my internal clock), I hear someone opening the door to my hotel room. I had partially fastened my privacy lock, enough to thwart the intruder, who had a working key! I hop out of bed and run to the door, peek out the keyhole, and see a young couple looking at their piece of paper which was written the room number. The same room number as the one I was assigned about 12 hours previous. I yelled out: "Hey, what are you doing! This is my room!"

They looked at each other, slightly befuddled, and say in reply, "But we have the key to this room."

I said something witty like, "Well, I'm in here, so there's been some mistake." One liners not forthcoming in such circumstance.

The next morning as I sipped coffee, waiting for others to wake up, I overheard the day manager discussing the incident, and popped up to complain. They had reset my room key, so that was probably a good thing. The person who checked me in collected my information, but neglected to enter it into their system, so the night clerk thought the room empty. They gave me a voucher for a all-you-can eat breakfast buffet next door, which was a nice gesture, but not really much of one when you think about it. Probably cost the hotel nothing.

I would never stay there again.

Seattle I certainly want to explore more of, beautiful city.

The Devil and Pope

I paid two quarters for this shot, after the fact.