top 5 g-rated hotel experiences

dear friends,

i am off to the big academic conference tomorrow and was just confirming the hotel's address. i was thinking about how i am probably more excited about the hotel than the conference. it has a rooftop pool!

in my adult life i travel enough on bidness that you would think i would hate hotels. perhaps it is because i did not grow up in a family that ever vacationed in hotels, but i still think they are quite a treat.

here are my top five g-rated hotel memories

(1) new york hilton- last year's big academic conference. got trashed with akm. made post last call decision to get a room since she was in no condition to drive us back to the jerz. all sold out. except for the couch part of a suite. walk of shame takes on whole new meaning when trying to avoid senior figures in your discipline.

(2) mailmaison, belfast- two words: posh goth

(3) hotel on rivington, LES- in 2005 this was still under construction... so i got my girls a room at very deep discount as a thanks for helping me move my crap to princeton. we didn't notice any noises. we did notice the views.

(4) the royal york, toronto- this is one of the homeland's great old hotels and as a manner of de-freaking myself i booked myself a room there the night before i wrote the gre the first time back during the queen's era. i wrote it again, and it wasn't quite the same freaking out in my montreak studio the night before.

(5) silver beach hotel, st. joseph michigan-picture it, beach-town michigan summer 2002. early in my friendship with brother-by-another-mother he decided we should take a little vacation from our intense summer school program. lesson learned: making guacamole in an ice machine bucket may be a great idea at night, but forgetting about it leaves a nasty looking mess for cleaning staff in the morning. (we could hear swearing as we exited and put it together half way back to south bend and felt bad)

perhaps if i get bored on the bolt bus back from boston i will blog a through review,

cam