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Mom complained last night that I hadn’t answered her question about the dogs and others have said that Colin and I are leaving you hanging since we’ve both not posted for a few days. Sorry everyone!

The show was a lot of fun. Charlotte is always fun to travel with and everything is greeted with humor, so despite not winning much at all, it was a nice weekend.

The hotel I picked out of the premium list to stay in was mid-priced, so I was hoping that it would be clean and comfortable. When we arrived, the inspection certificate stated they had been inspected in March 2006 and had a 97.5% rating.

They must have been warned that the inspector was coming and made an all-out effort to clean, because our room was nowhere near 97.5% clean. The bedspreads were torn and had cigarette burns in them. The room itself had a smell of cigarette smoke so strong as to knock you down when you first opened the door. This was supposed to be a non-smoking room, so I would really have hated to have been in a smoking room! You really wondered about the bathroom although it looked clean enough on the surface. When the dogs started scratching, though, we got concerned. This hotel got a flea bag rating from us. 😯

On the plus side, though, it was directly across the street from a Golden Corral restauraunt. If you’ve never been to a Golden Corral, you are missing a treat. This is a buffet style restauraunt (all you can eat) that has some wonderful food! I found out I’m old enough for the senior discount, so got a $1 off my meal 🙂 They have steaks, chicken fixed about 8 different ways, hamburgers, meatloaf, ham, and I know I’m leaving off a lot here. Vegetables are varied and cooked well. Salad bar has a lot of goodies on it to choose from. Regular salad greens, Ceasar salad fixings, potato salad, pasta salad, 3 bean salad along with a myriad of toppings. Then there is the dessert bar. I always get carrot cake — this is a spice cake with raisins, walnuts and grated carrots mixed in the batter with cream cheese icing that has more nuts on top. It is wonderful! They also have a double chocolate cake, fruit pies (they vary), turnovers, brownies and fudge, ice cream and dozens of toppings for that. All of these are cooked right there and you can watch them make everything.

They also serve breakfast in the morning — just as much stuff to choose from and if you’re not in the mood for breakfast food, there is some “regular” food as well, although not quite as much as in the evening or lunch. Dinner is $10 per person (adults) and breakfast is $8 per person (adults) which I don’t think is too bad. They have good sized rooms that you can book for parties or meetings.

Ok — now I’ve made myself hungry 😛

I did have the pups eyes tested at the health clinic put on by one of the clubs and Charlotte had her pups eyes and hearing tested. Everyone came out with flying colors. I’ll get hearing done this coming weekend in Montgomery as the price was much more reasonable than it was in Monroe.

Need to run.

Love to all,

Margaret