Llama Drama

I bought Jack a book about a baby llama who doesn't want to go to sleep and creates numerous attempt for his mother's attention. She tells him "no more llama drama"! It is Christmas Day and we are working from 8am until 10pm to let staff off. I will recount our latest llama drama at the motel, as well as the normal day in the life activities. Hope all of you are having a wonderful Holiday. I toasted friends and family last night with the annual Grandad Urich Bacardi Cocktail. First sip always makes you wince because it is so tart, and then it is smooth sailin'!

1. The "sabotage" of the hot water tank. Two out of the past three nights, after the office is closed around 11 PM., someone has turned one of the three tanks that we have to the off position - creating no hot water for 8 of our rooms. That means discontent guests and middle of the night phone calls to find someone to start the tank up again (we live 50 miles from the motel).

I just don't get people and why they use their creativity for mischief, and not for the greater good. Like Maddof's Ponzi scheme. If he was that financially smart and that capable and had so many great connections, why didn't he figure out how to fix the economy.

2. The first check out of the day. She is an author writing a book about how her son, who is 8, has been thrown into the DARE program because he walked into a field of marijuana and is now being chased by the owners of the field and that she is an ex-FBI agent who was disgusted with the program and is exposing it now and she was in jail for possession of marijuana and yadda, yadda. Oh, and did I say that she was dressed as a pirate this morning (?) and going to the casinos up north because they are running from this man who owns the marijuana field and who is in her book and they cannot stay at home because he is threatening them. Hmmm

Not drama, just fun...

3. Alex, our former employee and artist friend, stopped by to hand deliver an exquisite, hand drawn card. I will scan it and post it on another blog, because it is so special. It is going to be framed. His leaving the Sea Dell was his choice because of some interpersonal staff problems but we miss him.

4. Kids from Germany in room #17 found a coconut out front and cracked it open as part of their breakfast, which they are enjoying outside at a picnic table.

5. We have guests from France, England, Sweden and China checked in house today. The world is really shrinking. Interesting how so many speak English - at least passably. Down in the Keys, I need to take an SSL class - Spanish as a Second Language.

6. Two fellows from south of Athens, OH are staying here and are scouting out a place in Key West to open an NFL theme bar. Their buddy just retired from the Philadelphia Eagles and they are going to have him do the fundraising from his NFL contacts. Great idea, hope there will be a new place in the Keys to sit and watch the Browns lose next season. Smack me, NEXT year we will prevail...

7. Got a call from family up north who sounded pretty "festive" if you know what I mean. Although, my family needs no excuse to be loud and raucous. My brother made the call as though he were looking for a room to rent tonight. He asked if I had a room for a "loser like him" and I told him I had a room "especially for a loser like him". I didn't know he was pulling my chain until he told me who it was. Duh! As his friend Beaver said, "just because you are a loser doesn't make you a bad person." I will leave on that note to ponder and also maybe someone can remind me if quotation marks go before or after the period.