We booked rooms at the local Travelodge for New Year’s Eve intending to do some watersliding with Shea’s parents, her aunt and Pace’s cousin. That’s what we did although when we went down to the pool and the pool attendant informed us that New Year’s Eve is their busiest day of the year in the pool, we knew we were in for a crazy night.
And he wasn’t lying – the swimming pool had half again the rated capacity of people in it, people were using the waterslide pool as a swimming pool, the hot tub was wall-to-wall bodies.
We were lucky to find chairs for our group – both when we first went down and even luckier, when we went back down after the obligatory New Year’s Eve pizza supper.
It was still fun (but crazy!) but the next day made up for it. We’d inquired and the hotel said check-out was 11am, courtesy check-out was 12pm and then you could pay $10/hr to stay after that right until 4pm if you wanted. So we decided to have a late breakfast in the room and go down later in the morning.
We went down around 10:30am and noticed people starting to leave already for the 11am check-out. By 12pm, pretty much everyone was gone and by 12:30pm, we had the pool to ourselves – a great surprise after the insanity of the night before. We spent a couple hours in the pool with Pace and his cousin loving that they had the run of the place (although that somehow led to me doing *way* more laps up the waterslide than I planned to do – as evidenced by the video below.)
(Another highlight – Shea repeated a memorable moment from when she was pregnant with Pace, making her own slow-mo trip down the slide!)
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