August 25th, Part 1
Yet again, we begin our day with the lovely sounds of rock and pop music being blasted from the unoccupied pathway outside of our window. If you're familiar with the app Shazam, you might be scared to know that we could Shazam the songs from our beds
Rob did his best by throwing a pillow over his head and did actually get some snooze time. I definitely could not sleep through that crap so I grabbed my ipad and caught up on emails/messages/facebook.
After showering and getting ready for the day, we headed over to Waffle House on Kirkman Road. Rob and Kira are huge Waffle House fans. I tolerate them enough to please my family. I don't mind the food, in fact, sometimes it's really good but in order for me to visit, I need to put some heavy blinders on.
Waffle Houses are not known for their cleanliness, let's just say.
I honestly don't even know how my husband can enjoy them because he is Mr. Clean & Mr. Safety!!
If I dragged him to ANY restaurant here in Calgary that looked like any Waffle House I have ever been to, he would take one look and leave.
It's weird that the big yellow WH sign is actually located on what looks to be an old Waffle House but the actual restaurant is the building next to it, with the yellow awning.
We walked in and it was super crowded, which we expected. The good thing was that the manager (?) was clearing tables and making sure people got a table in order of arrival. After about 15 minutes, three spots at the counter opened up but we requested a table instead so we waited another 15 minutes. If only they had a place to sit. They had a few chairs on the other side but they were always taken.
While we were standing there, next to the jukebox, I noticed so much dirt and greases and mold...it's kind of hard
not to notice when you're standing there for 30 minutes.
I think Kira and Rob were smiling here because I had pointed out that not only were we eating here but we were waiting 30 minutes to get a table...like it was some 4 star restaurant.
Finally, we got a table! Kira doesn't like to wait for anything so she was very relieved to be sitting.
I have back problems and by the time we sat down, my back was killing me!!! Why did I do this to myself again ?
This is me...in pain and not super pleased but putting on my best half-smile
The one thing I do love about Waffle House is that they are crazy quick with the food so we ordered immediately and the food came so fast that when I saw it coming, I thought to myself that there's no way that it was
our food!.
It was though and honestly, it was arguably the best WH food I have ever had.
We always split two City Specials which is plenty enough for the three of us. I did order Kira a whole extra ham steak just for her and everyone loved it.
Back to the room where it was time for me to do laundry while Rob caught up on some work.
There is a website where you can check to see which machines were available before you go trekking through the building with an armful of dirty laundry so I did that first. Despite a weird glitch not showing the actual machines, there were several available so I went up to the third floor and found the laundry room, which ended up being really close, right at the elevator that we were closest to.
There were three washers not going but when I went to put our clothes in, there were clothes already in there.
Checked the other ones and they ALL had clothes in them. But they weren't wet, they were still dry.
No one was in there at the time and so I waited a few minutes just in case someone was running back to their room to grab their credit card or something. I waited long enough for that not to be the case and then I removed the dry clothes from one of the washers and put them neatly on the top of the washer, threw our clothes in, ran my credit card through the machine and chose my washer to start it.
I waited a little longer after it started to see if those people were coming back but they didn't. I felt bad but what could I do?
On the way back, I took this shot of the pool. This was about three rooms closer to the pool area than ours, so it gives you an idea of how far away from the pool we actually were and why I thought that pool music/noise wouldn't be an issue that first night.
I set a timer on my phone and then headed back to our room.
When my timer went off, I went to go flip our laundry and the people whose clothes had been in the washer were there. I explained to them what happened and they were totally fine with it. They said they were unsure of how to work it and they hadn't swiped their credit card. They eventually did figure it out though. While I was there this second time, there was also a group of 3 guys there. They were just camped out in the laundry room, each on their phone or reading a book. They didn't say anything to me (or the other couple) but they watched me the entire time. All three of them.
I set my timer and left, they were still watching me as I left out the door.
Once my timer was done, I went back up to grab our laundry and those three creepos were still there, still watching me as I quickly folded our clothes. Thankfully half-way through, Rob had joined me.
I asked Kira to put her laundry away...this is how a lazy teenager puts their laundry away apparently.
We chilled in the room, as per usual and then decided to have dinner at The Bayliner Diner. We love this place, they have delicious chicken strips and burgers! We ate here many times last summer and looked forward to eating here again!
The place is massive and has tons of options...each type of food with it's own location/kitchen.
Thankfully burgers and chicken strips are in the same place!
Once you get all of your food, you head to the cashier and pay for it.
My burger...
Kira's strips...
Rob's burger...
I gotta say that our food was less than spectacular.
Kira's strips were burnt but they were still okay, according to Kira and our burgers were just okay. Nothing even close to what they usually taste like. I have literally dreamed about this cheeseburger and have enjoyed it during many trips but they were basically just edible this time. I don't know if we just caught them on a bad night or what? It wasn't busy at all so it should have been much better than it was.
After dinner, we headed back to the room to digest our food a little as we didn't want to have full tummies for our next adventure.