Sunday, July 13, 2008

Room 728 for Four at the Marriott?





Last summer (or maybe the one before...I lose track...advanced age, head injury, blah blah blah) Nadia, Maria and myself were walking along the harbor paths near Seaport Village and discovered the beautiful swimming pool at the Marriott hotel.  We were able to walk right thru the gate and sit beside the pool and enjoy the lovely resort feel.  I've been mulling over the idea for a summer (or two?) now that we should "crash" the Marriott pool.  Enough sitting and watching-I was ready to experience!  This past week I informed Tiffany, Nadia, and Sarah of my plans to do just that and invited them to join me in my little adventure.  Everyone gamely came along, buuuuut only two (ahem!) actually swam.  I definitely was pleased to find the water was warm.  Nearly like bath water...but 3.5-5 feet deep!  It was a little challenging to find lounge chairs, but we finally pulled up a pretty section of grass to sit on and soon enough two chairs opened up.  I brought my own beach towel, but in order to "blend" with all the resort towels that were around Tiffany and I scouted around until we found where we too could obtain those white and green towels of the "in" crowd.  We found the appropriate tiki hut, and all we had to do was sign our initials, what room we were in, and how many towels we wanted.  
Room number?!  Ummm....  Sarah had asked me that question earlier "what are you going to say if someone asks what room you're in?"  I jokingly told her we were in 728-who knew I'd actually need that info?!  
Next thing I knew Tiffany and I had turquoise wrist bands and we were soaking up some tropical warmth and happily splashing in the pool!
Just in case anyone would like the play-by-play of our adventures yesterday Sarah and Nadia wrote down our activities and approximate time frames.  Nadia also documented our adventure with her photography skills (see below).