Solvang June 2011

Earlier in June my Mom came for a visit and we had such a great time. We went up to Solvang for a little getaway and had such a fun time. Solvang is a darling little Danish town in the Santa Ynez Valley. We walked around the shops and enjoyed ourselves a bit too much with the pastries and aebleskivers.

All in all it was a great little getaway except for some crazy experiences at our Hotel. I was trying to get Nolan down for the night so we had turned off the lights but he just really wasn't interested in sleep. So we turned the lights back on and a few minutes later noticed a giant spider on the wall. I'm not talking about just a little one...it was huge! So Tyler called the front desk because he didn't want to kill and I don't blame him. When the guy from the hotel came he was kind of looking at us like "ok where's the spider you're calling the front desk about?" and then he saw it and was terrified. He said, "I don't think I can get that, why don't we get you a new room?", so we agreed. When he walked out the door we could hear him down the hall freaking out because he was so afraid! I think it must have been a brown recluse...it was so creepy. So we changed rooms and started getting all settled again as I was washing my hands, I could heard the shower in the next room go on and all the sudden I could hear this bubbling coming from the bath time. I walked in to find sewage coming up the bathtub drain...unbelievable. The stench was horrendous. So we call the front desk and no answer so I walked out our door and started for the front desk and I ran into the spider guy, when I told him what was happening he couldn't believe it. He walked into our room, took one whiff and said "let me get you another room". It was the most unbelievable experience ever. The staff was overall very accommodating and wonderful, they offered us their suite and would have comped our room but I booked it through Priceline and so they can't! Lesson learned, get the price off priceline and call the hotel to book it next time.