Ok, so I know that I didn’t quite follow through on my promise and continue my story of Memorial Day weekend. But my boyfriend, Ricky – a blogging fanatic – has recounted pretty much the whole thing on his own blog. And since I’ve had a few busy weekends and some deadlines at work lately, rather than tell the whole thing over myself – this time I will just be a slacker and point you to his blogs about the trip, if you’d like to know the rest of the story:

Surprise Weekend Getaway: Part 1

Surprise Weekend Getaway: Part 2

Surprise Weekend Getaway: Part 3

And of course I just realized that he never did a Part 4, talking about our trip to Cedar Point, the actual highlight of the trip. Oh well… there are always the pictures.

Recently, my trend for Memorial Day seems to be to do something, well… memorable. Last year I made a trip to Washington, D.C. to visit my friend Paul (my first ever trip to D.C.) and this year I ended up taking my boyfriend Ricky on a mystery trip. He had no idea where we were going until we reached our destination. He even blogged about his anticipation (and fear) about not knowing, which you can read here.

Our trip turned out to be quite the wacky Memorial Day weekend. Yes, wacky… a pretty accurate word for it. It started out with our drive, obviously. Google Maps led us through quite the back roads of northern Ohio. Have you ever heard of the movie “Deliverance”? I have never actually seen it, but I’ve heard stories. Well, on our way there we passed through a town called Defiance. And it looked to me about like Deliverance sounds like it would be.

After making the several hour trek through the Ohio countryside (and after Ricky finally guessed our plans for at least one day of the trip), we finally arrived at our hotel. I had booked a room online, and upon making it to the room that they put us in, we discovered that it had a jacuzzi. Sweet! We decided to make a trip across the street to the Speedway station for some beverages (it had a *beer cave*) and then try out our jacuzzi. Turns out, said jacuzzi did not work… and apparently neither did the hotel’s wi-fi, at least not for my computer. After a phone call to the hotel’s support line and talking with both level 1 and 2 tech support and getting the promise of a call from a network administrator (which I never did get), I still ended up not having wi-fi the entire weekend.

So what do you do with a jacuzzi that doesn’t work? After posing this question to the interwebz and getting no adequate responses, we came up with a solution on our own. After a trip to Walmart and now armed with a garden hose extension, a big bottle of bubble bath, and lots of patience, we ended up with a giant jacuzzi full of bubbles. And yes, it took forever to fill up using the hose and the bathroom sink. And yes, we only ended up using it for 4 minutes because the water was too hot. But did you really think we could sit there and stare at a broken jacuzzi all weekend long without coming up with something fun to try and a good story to go along with it?

And so far, this is just the tale of our hotel stay – I haven’t even gotten to the actual plans for the trip yet. Stay tuned!