For Christmas 2019 I gave Maggie a present of a trip to a hotel where we would have our own room, go swimming, and get breakfast the next day. We stayed at the Portland Suites Airport East hotel in Clackamas. With two queen beds, pool, hot tub, free parking, and breakfast, the total for the night was $66.
Memories/highlights.
- [Insert picture of the gift sheet]
- Maggie thought the picture included her and I in a van, and kept asking about the van. When we went outside with our bags, she saw our neighbor's white van and asked if that was our van for the trip.
- "This is my first trip to a hotel with my own queen-sized bed!"
- Maggie loved packing up her bag, and insisted on always calling it a suitcase. We took Annie's small backpack with a pull handle. Maggie filled up all the various little pockets and picked out all the different clothes she wanted to wear.
- Before we got to the hotel we stopped at Nadaka park and enjoyed 30 minutes of frolicking in a new park, with no timeline and nice sunshine. We found a stuffed horse that you could sit on, and had a snowball fight with some of the batting that had fallen out of the horse.
- After taking out our suitcases at the hotel, Maggie pulled her suitcase around the whole time. We got to our room (the hallway reeked of pot) and Maggie opened up the door with her key. She unloaded her whole bag and put her clothes, baby doll, and card games all in different drawers in the bureau.
- For the afternoon, before dinner, Maggie just wanted to play around in the room and play card games. She leaped back and forth between the beds a few dozen times, and then we played variations of Old Maid, Go Fish, and Animal Rummy. Maggie was scared by the idea of getting stuck with the Old Maid, so we played a modified version with the maid removed.
- We walked to a conveyor sushi restaurant for dinner and got good counter seats where Maggie was able to watch the Secret Life of Pets on a TV (no sound). We were there for about an hour, with me eating different kinds of sushi the whole time, and Maggie mostly staring at the TV and gazing upon the different plates circulating on the conveyor. After about 20 minutes of saying she was looking for what she wanted, she spotted something across the room and all of a sudden declared "There it is! There is what I want!" A minute later, the most ordinary looking plate of sushi came by, looking indistinguishable from the hundreds that had passed us already. Maggie snatched it up and started eating, soon realizing that she didn't actually like it. We also got a plate of baby octopi (pictured), which Maggie tried a nibble of. She liked the edamame (no surprise), but ended up spilling half of her take home box in the street when she fell. This was cause for a breakdown.
- After dinner we got our swim stuff on and went to the pool. The pool was very cold and Maggie didn't go past her ankles. Luckily, there was a hot tub also, which wasn't too hot. Maggie was in there with her swimmies, sitting and floating around for about 15 minutes. Very nice.
- Later - Maggie, what did you think about the pool and hot tub? "That was a fat man."
- After swimming we went back to the room, got ready for bed, and watched some cartoons. I didn't sleep well. Hard to tell for Maggie. She changed her position many times, sometimes with her head in the middle of the bed and her feet at the head of the bed.
- We got up around 7:20 in the morning and went down for breakfast. Maggie had part of a waffle, fruit loops, and water. Pretty basic. It was one of the more limited continental breakfasts I'd ever seen (no bagels, no eggs, no meat), but it served its purpose.
- Maggie took a bath after breakfast, and was really silly playing with cups, straws and a quarter, doing a sort of 3 card Monty game trying to hide the quarter from me and then shrieking in delight any time I didn't find it.
- Then lots of naked time playing more cards on the bed or watching cartoons.
- We checked out at 10:30am and went home.
- Fun adventure! Throughout the whole time at the hotel, Maggie kept references the paper describing the gift, saying, "Next we are going to eat dinner" or "The last thing on our trip will be our breakfast!"
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