Speaker 1: Misspelling with Tory Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast. It is August,
Speaker 1: and I don't think I've ever been so excited for
Speaker 1: it to be August because that means summer is almost over.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. As a mom of five, I couldn't
Speaker 1: wait for summer to get here. I was so excited.
Speaker 1: And I think predominantly because there's okay. So here's my thing.
Speaker 1: Although I wake up really early us. I used to
Speaker 1: be like a late sleeper, like worked really hard when
Speaker 1: I was filming nine o two and zero and like
Speaker 1: we would have four am calls crazy early. But then
Speaker 1: on the weekends, I was that girl that could sleep
Speaker 1: till like one o'clock. Oh gosh, could sleep so well.
Speaker 1: And then once I had kids, it's just that like
Speaker 1: internal maternal clock. I just wake up like five six am.
Speaker 1: But I'm not a get out of better. And they
Speaker 1: say that when you wake up, you're supposed to it's
Speaker 1: your body saying it's time to literally get up, and
Speaker 1: you're supposed to like get up and go and do something.
Speaker 1: But I will wake up, but I will just lay
Speaker 1: in bed and just like talk to myself in my
Speaker 1: head for like hours. It's probably it's probably not a
Speaker 1: good thing. It's like my built in like therapy session
Speaker 1: doesn't end well. But that notion of being able to
Speaker 1: wake up and just lay there is really nice during
Speaker 1: the summer because the kids, on the other hand, they
Speaker 1: are still young, so they'll sleep like all day during summer.
Speaker 1: But knowing that we have to wake up at like
Speaker 1: six am and get back to that grind, that schedule
Speaker 1: of school always throws me off because then I literally
Speaker 1: have to physically get up and get everyone out the door.
Speaker 1: But summer has been long, Oh my gosh, because at
Speaker 1: least when they're on a schedule, I have a little
Speaker 1: bit of like my life back. But then when I'm
Speaker 1: just with them twenty four to seven, and I don't
Speaker 1: know about moms out there and dads probably agree with me.
Speaker 1: But they eat more during the summer because they're always home.
Speaker 1: They're not like those set meals like breakfast, like school lunch, dinner.
Speaker 1: It's just like constant snacking. So your fridge is always
Speaker 1: just like looks like it's just been ravaged and it's
Speaker 1: a tough one. So it's August, which means they're going
Speaker 1: back to school next week. Next week. Yeah, I'm really excited.
Speaker 1: I am really excited to get back to that school schedule.
Speaker 1: So summer we are on a vacation. We had like
Speaker 1: our summer vacation and it's been beautiful and amazing, but
Speaker 1: it's challenging. I feel like going on a vacation with
Speaker 1: kids of so many varying ages. So I have eighteen, seventeen, thirteen, twelve,
Speaker 1: and eight, and when they're little, you can just like
Speaker 1: play with them in the pool and hang out, but
Speaker 1: varying degrees. There's like so much there's so much teen
Speaker 1: drama going on, like it follows you to vacation, and
Speaker 1: then you know there's like the boys at the pool
Speaker 1: and the girls are like snapping them, like give them
Speaker 1: my snap, and it's just it's been a lot. But
Speaker 1: my eight year old as amazing as our vacation has been,
Speaker 1: and we're so grateful to be able to take a vacation.
Speaker 1: But he said to me, today is our last day.
Speaker 1: And he said, he said, Mom, you know what I
Speaker 1: really wish, And I said what He said that I
Speaker 1: could just stay in the hotel room all day and
Speaker 1: I go, but you're on vacation. You can do that
Speaker 1: at home. And he said, Mom, I have been sitting
Speaker 1: in the sun at the pool for seven days. I
Speaker 1: was like, poor guy. Yeah, but I tell you I'm
Speaker 1: really tired too, so I was like, yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: we could just stay in. So I think my new
Speaker 1: rule of thumb for like next vacation is I will
Speaker 1: just get a big screen with like tropical backgrounds and
Speaker 1: it'll be showing like the beach in the ocean, and
Speaker 1: they could just stay on their phones in a room
Speaker 1: with that, like I it would cost less. I think
Speaker 1: that's gonna be my new rule of thumb if you
Speaker 1: guys had any like creepy hotel stories, because I was
Speaker 1: just thinking of this this morning when I woke up.
Speaker 1: So my body internally just wakes up. And I don't
Speaker 1: know about you, but my body wakes up at the
Speaker 1: same time every single day. So it wakes up at
Speaker 1: three thirty three am, which they say three is like
Speaker 1: the witching hour. I don't know what that means, but
Speaker 1: I think there's some theory about why our bodies wake
Speaker 1: up at the three o'clock hour, but I don't really
Speaker 1: know it. And I wake up at six eighteen. I
Speaker 1: should probably look this up because it probably means something.
Speaker 1: So every single day it's like Groundhog's Day. I wake
Speaker 1: up at three thirty three am and six eighteen. Well,
Speaker 1: I wake up at other times during the night because
Speaker 1: now I'm old, So I pee during the night a lot,
Speaker 1: not like pe like not like pee the better or anything,
Speaker 1: but like I have to get up and go pee.
Speaker 1: And I think that's just like an age thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: not like I'm old, but like I just my bladder
Speaker 1: holds less. Or maybe because I've had five kids. It
Speaker 1: could just be that. I like saying that that sounds better,
Speaker 1: it makes you sound younger. But yeah, what was my point.
Speaker 1: Oh so when I woke up at six eighteen this morning,
Speaker 1: I was remembering because I was looking at the I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, we're so lucky to be in this
Speaker 1: amazing hotel. And then I was just thinking how unnatural
Speaker 1: hotels are because people you don't know, it's just like
Speaker 1: they're turning over people staying in a hotel room over
Speaker 1: and over and over again, and it just it doesn't
Speaker 1: feel or seem natural in any way. And I was
Speaker 1: thinking about the creepiest hotel story I ever had, and
Speaker 1: it was one time when Dean and I were together.
Speaker 1: We were in Toronto and we were filming and we
Speaker 1: went and stayed. We had like two days off, so
Speaker 1: we're like, oh, let's go stay at this this amazing
Speaker 1: like Victorian hotel or something. So we went and stayed
Speaker 1: at this hotel and I think it was me and
Speaker 1: Dean and my dog and it was like the most
Speaker 1: prestigious like hotel in Toronto and old school and beautiful,
Speaker 1: and we were like, okay, we've been working hard, like,
Speaker 1: let's just we ordered in room service and we were
Speaker 1: going to watch a movie. And I'm not even sure
Speaker 1: how we found it, but we found a toe plot twist.
Speaker 1: Didn't see that one coming? Did you or hear that
Speaker 1: one coming? We literally found like a severed big toe
Speaker 1: in the oh I remember the story now. So it
Speaker 1: was me and Dean and my dog Muso, and Muso
Speaker 1: found something and we were laying in bed watching a
Speaker 1: movie and we just finished dinner and we found something
Speaker 1: and he was chewing on something at the end of
Speaker 1: the bed and we're like, what does he have? And
Speaker 1: we kind of went back and forth like did he
Speaker 1: get our food? Like did you find a bone near?
Speaker 1: Like what is he chewing on? So I went and
Speaker 1: like grabbed it out of his mouth. And that's when
Speaker 1: I found it was a severed human big toe. And
Speaker 1: the creepy part is it wasn't that old, like, it
Speaker 1: wasn't that decayed, and it was like precisely chopped off.
Speaker 1: So imagine that call like down to the hotel like
Speaker 1: excuse me. You know they're used to getting problems. People
Speaker 1: complain incessantly about, you know, things in hotels, like little
Speaker 1: things like the air is not working or like, you know,
Speaker 1: silly stuff like excuse me, we have a problem. They're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: what and we're like, we found a human big toe
Speaker 1: in our bed. Yeah, So then do you guys have
Speaker 1: any opinion on this? All my amazing producers listening to
Speaker 1: this right now.
Speaker 2: I mean my mouth is like on the floor.
Speaker 1: You can't unsee that, like ever, Like I can picture
Speaker 1: that big toe right now.
Speaker 3: I don't know how I didn't know this story.
Speaker 1: I told this story, but I have never told this story.
Speaker 1: And it was I think, if I remember correctly, like
Speaker 1: it was it was definitely I think a male big toe,
Speaker 1: but it was like chopped off and it wasn't like decaying,
Speaker 1: and the nail bed was fine. You don't have a
Speaker 1: thing about nail buds. Or toe beds. I guess as well.
Speaker 1: It was. It was nice, but the hotel like kind
Speaker 1: of had no reaction. They were like, oh, we're so sorry,
Speaker 1: so we like put it in like a napkin from
Speaker 1: our dinner and like Dean brought it down to them.
Speaker 1: But you guys, we never got like I would have
Speaker 1: been horrified. It would have been like I'm so sorry,
Speaker 1: like the whole stay is free, or like I don't
Speaker 1: even know how you make up for having a human
Speaker 1: toe in somebody's bed. But all I know is I
Speaker 1: think they gave us a credit if we ever stayed
Speaker 1: there again, ever stayed there again, like you're never gonna
Speaker 1: stay there again. But yeah, wait, should I have like
Speaker 1: called the police.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, I'm shocked that the police weren't
Speaker 3: called to investigate like that. There wasn't a murder and
Speaker 3: there's other body parts to tributed around the hotel.
Speaker 1: And did you say it was in the bed. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure because Musso had it in the bed, so
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if he found it under the bed.
Speaker 1: If he found it in the bed, you didn't at
Speaker 1: the end of the bed.
Speaker 3: You didn't demand to have your roomage.
Speaker 1: Isn't that the crazy thing? No, we didn't. I can't
Speaker 1: even remember why we stayed in that room. I think
Speaker 1: it was like late and we were just so tired
Speaker 1: from working. We're like like turn a blind toe to
Speaker 1: it and just move on. But yeah, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: the hotel afterwards. But like, it's like a prestigious hotel
Speaker 1: in Toronto. Oh my god, we should have put in
Speaker 1: a ziplock bag. I could have. Oh my god, I've
Speaker 1: always wanted to solve a murder. I've always been into
Speaker 1: like crime and stuff. That could have been my one
Speaker 1: chance to put in a ziplock bag to go to
Speaker 1: the police station and I could have solved a murder.
Speaker 1: Well I missed out. Anyway, things you should think about
Speaker 1: when you're at a hotel because I don't know, and
Speaker 1: I don't think it's natural stay in a hotel where
Speaker 1: people have stayed over and over and over again. Have
Speaker 1: you ever had any ghost stories at hotel?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 1: Do? You have like a bad one? No?
Speaker 2: Well, it was just annoying, and I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's a real ghost story, but it's a
Speaker 2: haunted hotel. And the light kept going on all night
Speaker 2: and had to get up and turn it off and
Speaker 2: then would just come back on.
Speaker 1: Oh see, I love stuff like that. I mean, now
Speaker 1: when you're trying to sleep, I guess that's annoying. But
Speaker 1: I like every hotel I go to, that's always like
Speaker 1: my first question, but maybe like my second or third,
Speaker 1: like it's your hotel haunted? Like we're the end. Remember
Speaker 1: we were at that hotel and we asked if it
Speaker 1: was haunted? Where were you not Rhode Island?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, Rhode Island.
Speaker 1: And then is that the one fall? And I always
Speaker 1: look up when I'm going to a hotel, not always
Speaker 1: when I think about it, I like Google, like is
Speaker 1: this hotel haunted? But then I feel a lot of
Speaker 1: the times you ask them, like that hotel we were
Speaker 1: at was at the Rhode Island Run and we asked
Speaker 1: them when we checked in because I looked it up
Speaker 1: and it was like one of the you know, five
Speaker 1: haunted hotels in Rhode Island, And we asked them at
Speaker 1: the front desk and they were like, no, nothing, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, no, no, You're listed as one of
Speaker 1: the most haunted hotels here. And she was like, I've
Speaker 1: never heard that. I've worked here for ten years and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh okay, Like are they supposed to
Speaker 1: like make people feel good and not tell them it's haunted.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Our hotel doesn't have a second floor.
Speaker 1: Usually it's the thirteenth floor, so maybe something happened on
Speaker 1: the second floor. I don't know. That sounds more exciting.
Speaker 3: I was still the second floor, even if it doesn't
Speaker 3: say as much.
Speaker 1: Now, well, just like it's still the thirteenth floor. If
Speaker 1: you skip from twelve to fourteen, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: I know my parents building in New York where I
Speaker 3: grew up does not have a thirteenth floor, just goes
Speaker 3: twelve fourteen, and it just feels like we must be
Speaker 3: living in a different time that that still exists is crazy.
Speaker 1: So fourteen is actually thirteen. It doesn't matter. You can
Speaker 1: change the number. It's still that floor, still thirteen, Still thirteen.
Speaker 1: Bose listening, He's like, are you laughing? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: this is me. You can't really see me right now,
Speaker 1: or if you can't, just won't make it into a
Speaker 1: social club. But I've like given up. I have no
Speaker 1: makeup on, I have no nails on, natural hair, I
Speaker 1: don't know an end of summer, like do like moms
Speaker 1: just give up. We're just like, oh, and I don't
Speaker 1: want to back to school. Shop like I don't want
Speaker 1: to do that. I had a friend that told me once, sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm going back to the how vacations are overrated because
Speaker 1: kids at their age just don't want to do anything.
Speaker 1: I had a friend once that told me that that
Speaker 1: she her kids were younger, she would wait till like nighttime,
Speaker 1: till they were all falling asleep with them in the car,
Speaker 1: and like drive and they were asleep, and they would
Speaker 1: actually go to a staycation like a little airbeyen beer
Speaker 1: or something cheap, and they would tell the kids that
Speaker 1: they had driven like twenty four hours some like magical place,
Speaker 1: and that's how they saved money. But I guess when
Speaker 1: they get older, you can't do that. That's a good
Speaker 1: one though, right the kids wake up in the morning,
Speaker 1: you're like, you're here, You've driven like one block. I
Speaker 1: should have tried that one when my kids were younger.
Speaker 1: Maybe I still have money. AnyWho. So the hotel we're
Speaker 1: in right now, it's a very lovely hotel, but it's
Speaker 1: the bed is up against a wall and then the
Speaker 1: wall has the like lighting wisconces and then it goes
Speaker 1: up and there's like a shelf way up at the top.
Speaker 1: So the other night, and I'll blame it on dessert
Speaker 1: bo it had too much chocolate ice cream and he
Speaker 1: thought he was Spider Man. So he was scaling the
Speaker 1: wall because it's like a pad it wall and it
Speaker 1: has grooves and he was like rock climbing, but onto it.
Speaker 1: And he got up to the top shelf where it
Speaker 1: is and he was like ew, We're like what And
Speaker 1: it was filled with dust, So like they never clean
Speaker 1: up there, which is really gross because that dust, if
Speaker 1: it just accumulates on that top shelf, it's going to
Speaker 1: hit the shelf, pile up, and when it gets too high,
Speaker 1: it's going to fall over on you and you're sleeping
Speaker 1: all the way down there. Is that gross? And we're
Speaker 1: at like a four star hotel, So like it makes
Speaker 1: me question every hotel you should complain a five star hotel?
Speaker 1: Boat what does that mean? Five star? I was saying
Speaker 1: four stars, so I'm more relatable what that means really good?
Speaker 1: Well or not? There's dust at the top of it.
Speaker 1: I had a friend that used to bring like pack
Speaker 1: the what light is it? The black light? I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2: You don't want to do any hotel room.
Speaker 1: You don't want to do it because you're always going
Speaker 1: to find something you don't want to see. Used to pack,
Speaker 1: like the black light and gloves and lights all over sand.
Speaker 1: That's you, isn't it. I'm just kidding. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: we band Remember that hotel we were at in my agropas.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of it.
Speaker 3: I travel with a little can of life fall wherever
Speaker 3: I go, and and that hotel was so frightening. I
Speaker 3: did need to use the lysol on the headboards, remember that?
Speaker 1: Remember why oh the headboard, because then we looked closer
Speaker 1: and there was like handprints in like a milky like opaque,
Speaker 1: like ooh. Again. We didn't change rooms, We stayed.
Speaker 3: Yeah. We didn't think that there was a much of
Speaker 3: a selection in that place. Actually, I don't think they
Speaker 3: had any other rooms, remember remember.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you're right, Yeah it was our friend.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, bad scene all the way around.
Speaker 1: But I think they bank on you, like traveling so
Speaker 1: far that you're so tired that you're going to just
Speaker 1: let things slip by Oh my gosh, I should, I should.
Speaker 1: I could have liked that presidential suite for like the
Speaker 1: rest of my life if I had really gone to
Speaker 1: town on that big toe, Like now I'm mad about
Speaker 1: it all over again. Now it's like fifteen years later,
Speaker 1: should I say maybe I should call that hotel.
Speaker 3: I think you should have them opened a murder infication.
Speaker 1: If this is a live radio show, we could get
Speaker 1: that hotel on right now. I'll be like that poor
Speaker 1: person answered the phone. Like, by the way, I was
Speaker 1: there fifteen years ago there was a toe. Now I'm
Speaker 1: sad about it as well, because there could be a
Speaker 1: murder case, like a family out there grieving somebody and
Speaker 1: they never found their body, and I could have helped.
Speaker 1: A big fucking toe, a human male big toe. You're
Speaker 1: probably wondering why I think it was a male toe,
Speaker 1: because I remember there was like like hairs on the
Speaker 1: big toe. I really don't need you to describe it,
Speaker 1: or just a hairy woman with a big toe. I
Speaker 1: don't know anyway. So we're in our last day vacation.
Speaker 1: I just made myself so sick talking about that big
Speaker 1: toe incident that I haven't thought about in fifteen years.
Speaker 1: And we're going to fly home tonight, which is going
Speaker 1: to be a whole other experience flying with five kids.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I'm just going to do road trips.
Speaker 1: I think after this, like you come back needing a
Speaker 1: vacation from your vacation. I was just saying the other day,
Speaker 1: there should be a place where you can go and
Speaker 1: you check in. It's just one giant bed and they
Speaker 1: just massage you and they hydrate you and they feed you.
Speaker 1: You can stay there for like twenty four hours. That's
Speaker 1: what I wish. Bo. Yeah, didn't I just say that?
Speaker 1: Always said we I say everything is a week because
Speaker 1: we're a family unit. That's what I wish. Yeah, doesn't
Speaker 1: that sound nice? It does no like a padded room.
Speaker 1: It's like an insane asylum. I just described an insane asylum.
Speaker 1: Do they call them that anymore? I don't think they
Speaker 1: massage you though. So I could be there, I could
Speaker 1: get hydrated, I could get fed, and I could get
Speaker 1: shock treatment. I'm my clear things up. I think that
Speaker 1: sounds nice because I'm not the adventure like. I'm not
Speaker 1: the type that wants to go on a vacation and
Speaker 1: like go horseback riding and go like hiking, like I
Speaker 1: want to lay by the pool and I feel like
Speaker 1: you're either one of two people and I'm that person.
Speaker 1: But like laying by the pool with five kids, it's
Speaker 1: not all it's correct of degree. So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: just like a pat it room with hydration and food
Speaker 1: and massage sounds good to me. The sad part is
Speaker 1: my I'm going to like long for these days one time,
Speaker 1: at some point, like once I'm an empty nester and
Speaker 1: the kids are gone and they don't want to go
Speaker 1: on family vacations. I'm going to miss the days of
Speaker 1: just hearing noise all the time, hearing those voices, hearing
Speaker 1: those doors slamming, seeing an empty fridge when I just
Speaker 1: stalked it a day before. Like, I'm going to miss
Speaker 1: those days. Yeah, but you can never leave home. Okay,
Speaker 1: you can't leave home. You're my last one. You can't
Speaker 1: like when you get older, you can't move out. You
Speaker 1: have to stay with mom forever. Okay, William's not gonna
Speaker 1: move out with you. But do you think you're gonna
Speaker 1: live with me to your older I don't know, you
Speaker 1: don't know where are you gonna go? Are you still
Speaker 1: gonna take vacations with me? Let me rephrase that. If
Speaker 1: I pay for vacations, will you still come on them
Speaker 1: with me? You don't know. Okay, wait, what do you
Speaker 1: do when you get older and like your kids have
Speaker 1: their own vacations and doing their own things and their
Speaker 1: schedules are all different. Do you take vacations by yourself
Speaker 1: or you just never go on a vacation again, what
Speaker 1: happens to you.
Speaker 2: Go with friends? Or if you're like my family, my
Speaker 2: sister and I just have our mom take us on vacation.
Speaker 1: That's what I want. I want my kids to always
Speaker 1: go with me. I don't I don't want to be alone.
Speaker 1: If you're paying mogo. Oh really yeah, that's how I
Speaker 1: do is perfect. Yeah, we can go find toes all
Speaker 1: over the world, take on the most prestigious hotels on
Speaker 1: one toe at a time, all across the world. So gross,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call that hotel today. So they have a
Speaker 1: kids club at our hotel and they had a chef's night,
Speaker 1: so Bo's like, I really want to do that. But
Speaker 1: then I feel like kids clubs are just parents' way
Speaker 1: of pawning off their kids, like they want alone time.
Speaker 1: Do you like how I say it? Because it's such
Speaker 1: a foreign concept. I've never done that. Like when I
Speaker 1: was young and we went on vacations, like my parents
Speaker 1: spent like every dinner with us. They didn't do dinners
Speaker 1: alone like Diane and I never did dinners alone, like
Speaker 1: our kids always are with us at night. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of just you know, high end, really expensive
Speaker 1: babysitting that you get at the hotel. So Bo says
Speaker 1: he wants to do Chef's Night at the kids club.
Speaker 1: So I'm like okay, and he like was held bent
Speaker 1: on doing it because he wants to take cooking classes
Speaker 1: in real life, which I can't find ones anywhere in
Speaker 1: our area. But so I signed him up for Chef's Night,
Speaker 1: mind you three hours at this kid's club from six
Speaker 1: pm to nine pm. It's one hundred and twenty five
Speaker 1: dollars per child. Yeah, so I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: they better have like a chef there, like preparing like
Speaker 1: eight courses with them for that price. She's Louise, that's like, ohmacass.
Speaker 1: So I take Bo to the Chef's Night and it
Speaker 1: was like Bo and like I would say, eight other
Speaker 1: kids and being the guilty mom, I am all their
Speaker 1: parents are coming in and we get there on time,
Speaker 1: which is unheard of for me. Thank god. Bo's like
Speaker 1: a time guy. He's like, we got to go. And
Speaker 1: I see parents come in and out and they're all
Speaker 1: dressed up fancy, and it's clear they're going to go
Speaker 1: out to a really nice dinner, the two of them alone,
Speaker 1: and they dropped their kids off. Being the mom I am.
Speaker 1: I of course, stayed with Bo for the entire three
Speaker 1: hours and for one hundred and twenty five dollars. Here's
Speaker 1: what they got. I guess we got a deal because
Speaker 1: they felt bad that it was like unheard of that
Speaker 1: a parents stayed. They did. They gave me I got
Speaker 1: to make dinner as well, so that was nice. That
Speaker 1: was a treat. So they did a meet and greet
Speaker 1: and every kid had to go through the kids and
Speaker 1: like the camp counselor the kids club counselors, they were like,
Speaker 1: you know, say your name, where you're from, what your
Speaker 1: favorite food is, and what your favorite pizza topping is
Speaker 1: because we were going to make pizzas. So they go
Speaker 1: through all the kids and bosokay, and he's like Bo
Speaker 1: and he's like looking at me, I'm like Los Angeles
Speaker 1: and he's like Los Angeles favorite food, sushi, favorite pizza topping, cheese.
Speaker 1: And they go through all the kids and then they
Speaker 1: awkwardly like turn to me like, oh and the one
Speaker 1: mom that stayed behind that's here, and I'm like, oh sorry,
Speaker 1: I was like toy Los Angeles, California, sushi, mushrooms. I
Speaker 1: don't even know why I said mushrooms, like I panicked.
Speaker 1: There was like the kids were like between like six
Speaker 1: and ten, and they all looked at me, and I
Speaker 1: got that panic in school thing when they call on
Speaker 1: you to say where you're from, like new kids school,
Speaker 1: and I literally couldn't remember my favorite pizza topping because
Speaker 1: I was like so nervous in front of these kids,
Speaker 1: and I said mushrooms because the girl before me, the
Speaker 1: six year old before me, said mushrooms. And you know
Speaker 1: how kids like in school, they're like what's your favorite
Speaker 1: sport or what do you want to be when you
Speaker 1: grow up? And the kids always just like all the
Speaker 1: boys say whatever the boys before said. So like you know,
Speaker 1: my kids would be like, you know, I want to
Speaker 1: be a basketball player, and I be like, you don't
Speaker 1: even like basketball. But it's because like the three guys
Speaker 1: before of them said it, so the six year old
Speaker 1: says mushrooms. So they got to me and I'm like mushrooms,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, I do like mushrooms. I do
Speaker 1: love mushrooms. No, they didn't make me say my age.
Speaker 1: I think I would have panicked more and just said
Speaker 1: six after the girl in front of me. So we
Speaker 1: then go inside and I think there was like paper
Speaker 1: and crayons and got to like do a drawing, which
Speaker 1: is great, And then we got our pizza. So they
Speaker 1: bring out these little I would say, like, you know,
Speaker 1: six inch like diameter pizzas, and they bring out toppings
Speaker 1: and and you get to make your pizzas. So there
Speaker 1: was tomato sauce. Oh no, sorry, The pizzas come out
Speaker 1: six inch in diameters. The sauce is already on it,
Speaker 1: and you have your choice of putting shreddit, mozzarella, parmesan cheese,
Speaker 1: black olives, cut up green onions, cut up pineapple. I
Speaker 1: wasn't not at that. What else bo salami? I think
Speaker 1: there were pepperonis. It was kind of an odd choice
Speaker 1: for like children, I don't know anyway in the salami. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the pepperonis were like all stuck together. I don't know,
Speaker 1: so I, like any adult, Wood just made a happy face.
Speaker 1: So I did like black olives to make a smile
Speaker 1: and like pepperoni for the eyes. Mine was cute though, right,
Speaker 1: bo I have a picture? Yeah, yeah, okay, oh I
Speaker 1: should have said truffles on pizza, that that would be
Speaker 1: my favorite, and they all would have thought I was
Speaker 1: even weirder. But so then they said, okay, everyone's made
Speaker 1: their pizza. We're going to take it and we're going
Speaker 1: to bake it and we're going to drop it at
Speaker 1: the kitchen and then we're going to give you guys
Speaker 1: a tour. And this is already like a planned speech,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't relevant to me being there the only parent.
Speaker 1: We're going to take you on a tour behind the
Speaker 1: scenes of this hotel, the underworkings, like behind the behind
Speaker 1: the curtain. Would they say behind the scenes things your
Speaker 1: parents never get to see. I'm like, I'm about to
Speaker 1: see it, and we're going to go on a tour.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, oh, okay, aka, we have to get
Speaker 1: these pizzas to the kitchen and bake them. We can't
Speaker 1: leave he little weasels alone, so you're gonna go with us,
Speaker 1: and we're just going to go like inside behind the door,
Speaker 1: drop them with the kitchen and call it a tour. Great,
Speaker 1: So we all go and then they're like okay, and
Speaker 1: as we go and get to the kitchen, we're going
Speaker 1: to go through the lobby and they gave everyone I
Speaker 1: declined mine the pom poms, like cheerleading pom poms, and
Speaker 1: which all the kids just proceeded to like hit each
Speaker 1: other with and there was like shredded pom poms everywhere.
Speaker 1: Before we even got out the door, we had to
Speaker 1: show off our pizzas, so she was wheeling all our
Speaker 1: pizzas behind and we had to stand in one straight
Speaker 1: line with her palm poms and prayed through the lobby,
Speaker 1: going pizza, pizza, and I was like okay, but it
Speaker 1: was like at this point, it was like seven pm
Speaker 1: and it was like a Thursday night, so the lobby
Speaker 1: is like filled with people all dressed up at the
Speaker 1: lobby bar. They have like a couple restaurants that are
Speaker 1: in the lobby, and it's you know, eight six year
Speaker 1: olds and me screaming pizza through the lobby, which was
Speaker 1: really awkward. The funny part is people thought this was
Speaker 1: like amazing, this is the entertainment was so great that
Speaker 1: everyone got up from their tables and came with their
Speaker 1: camera phones and started like videotaping this like it was
Speaker 1: some big deal. So any parents out there, check your
Speaker 1: phone because you're gonna see toy spelling in the background
Speaker 1: going pizza. Okay. So then we get to like behind
Speaker 1: the scenes and we open the door and we see
Speaker 1: the mechanics. So it really goes on at this hotel,
Speaker 1: which really gave me pause for why we shouldn't stay
Speaker 1: at hotels. It was very weird back there. So as
Speaker 1: we're going like through this underground hallway like we went downstairs,
Speaker 1: were going like all these underground like tunnels there was there,
Speaker 1: and they're saying it because I guess they're used to
Speaker 1: talking to kids. And then the kids are even looking
Speaker 1: and like they're facing the wrong way and like they're
Speaker 1: picking their nose and like, oh my god, touching everything.
Speaker 1: And I was like, touch everything. You can't touch that,
Speaker 1: and mostly for like other people's safety, because this kid
Speaker 1: had all even picking his nose. But they were like
Speaker 1: and then over here, this is where we keep like
Speaker 1: the coffee makers, and they had like twenty coffee makers,
Speaker 1: and this is where we keep this. And then she
Speaker 1: opens one door and she's like and this is a
Speaker 1: ballroom with mattresses. I'm not kidding you, guys. It was
Speaker 1: a ballroom with like hundreds of mattresses just piled on
Speaker 1: top of each other. It was like dominoes. It was
Speaker 1: like a mattress tower. I snuck back afterwards and took
Speaker 1: a picture because I'm like, no one's gonna believe this.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure this is not sanitary. I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1: I don't know why they were stacked like this, and
Speaker 1: it was really horrifying. It was creepy. It would have
Speaker 1: been fun to jump on, though there might be a
Speaker 1: poostain on them. That could happen. Bo So my kid. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we go through all these like back ground stuff and
Speaker 1: then they take us into a room which was filled
Speaker 1: like imagine taking six to like nine year olds in
Speaker 1: a room and being like this is a good idea.
Speaker 1: And she was like leading it and not even looking back,
Speaker 1: and she was like, and here's where we keep our
Speaker 1: office supplies. But it wasn't, you guys. It was just
Speaker 1: big like paper cutters like and shredders, like twenty of them.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh my gosh, and these kids
Speaker 1: are like trying to touch everything. I'm like, this could
Speaker 1: in not so well. Anyway, we go through the kitchen,
Speaker 1: we go through the bar underground. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I went on this tour that literally was an hour.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh, weren't we supposed to
Speaker 1: make it, you know, eat our pizza and watch a movie.
Speaker 1: So we finally finally get back because we've dropped our
Speaker 1: pizza off. We've now done this hour tour. Maybe forty minutes,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it seemed like an hour. We then
Speaker 1: pick up our pizza. We go back and we ate
Speaker 1: our pizza, right, Bo, Yeah, yours is kind of pineapple?
Speaker 1: Well why would you dump pineapple and peppers on one
Speaker 1: slice and be like this is the gross one? And
Speaker 1: then when it's when it's baked, you're like, well now
Speaker 1: I can't eat it. But you knew what you were
Speaker 1: getting into. You did eat two slices. Anyway, the best
Speaker 1: part of that night is they had an ice cream bar.
Speaker 1: Bo had three helpings. Right, He's like, is it okay
Speaker 1: to go back up? I'm like, I just play one
Speaker 1: hundred twenty five dollars. You can go like ravage the
Speaker 1: entire bar, keep going like this is crazy for one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five dollars. You've got a six inch
Speaker 1: round pizza. Let's just gowing tomato sauce and like mozzarella. Oh,
Speaker 1: you got a glass of apple juice that was good
Speaker 1: until they ran out. You got an ice cream bar nice,
Speaker 1: and you got a tour some old mattresses. I will
Speaker 1: never look at it area in a hotel again after
Speaker 1: walking through that. That's why the parents don't go back there.
Speaker 1: Yeah anyway, Sorry, that's my story. Don't do chefs night
Speaker 1: at a kid's club. Oh and then we watched Cloudy
Speaker 1: with a Chance and wat Balls right, yeah, half half
Speaker 1: of it well because they took so long on that
Speaker 1: damn tour.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and pizzas.
Speaker 1: So bad. Yeah, you got a pizza box that was
Speaker 1: that was your like party guests. Yeah, lesson learned. So
Speaker 1: I don't mean to sound ungrateful, because I am so
Speaker 1: grateful that we're able to take vacations and this is
Speaker 1: so so nice, but I need like a full twenty
Speaker 1: four hours when I get home, just to unwind from
Speaker 1: vacation and then head back to school. So yay back
Speaker 1: to school. I've never thought i'd say these words. I'm
Speaker 1: so excited for the kids to go back to school,