Sunday December 7, 2008 - A Bust

Still fighting sleep or whatever, I finally woke up a little after noon. My only goal for the day was to check up on email and do laundry and read what ever I could about Florida's win over Alabama. It was a long day knowing that I wouldn't get the BCS picture till after I was already asleep for the next night.

Fighting the extremely sloooooow wireless internet connection, I attempted to check email and watch highlights from the game. After all this, it's now time for laundry. I head back over to Mueller's and pick up some laundry detergent and dryer sheets. Unfortunately everything is in German, so I tried to stay away from the BO scented detergent. Now I head back to the hotel to get my "wash-tokens" from the front desk of which I have to pay for. (I put that on the room tab tho ;-)

So with tokens in hand I grab what I want to wash and head down to what mimics a dungeon. First off, you have to use the room key to get to this level and then once you're down there, there is no button anywhere to indicate that your ready to get back on the elevator, nor any instructions. I felt like Indiana Jones where he gets trapped in a secret room and has to figure a way out. After looking around for a moment, I see this tiny slot which seems to be the size of my room key. A-Ha! I stick my room key and then a light flashes on the elevator and ultimately the elevator comes back down to pick you up. All-in-all it wasn't that difficult to figure out, but a little instruction would've come in handy.

Ok...so now to the wash room. There is 1 (one) washer and 1 (one) dryer. Are you kidding me...in a hotel, where over half the rooms are considered short-term apartments????? Anyway, I get down there and SURPRISE there are clothes in both the washer and dryer, plus some just hanging from a small clothesline. So naturally I head back upstairs with clothes in hand and to go and try to fight the slow internet again.

So, long story short, after the third trip I head back down to wash room, the clothes in the washer are gone, but there are clothes still in the dryer. I throw my clothes into the washer, which is an extremely small front loader...it barely held 3 pairs of jeans. Well, after the wash was complete, I check the dryer and again, someone's clothes were still in there. So I took them out and set them on top of the dryer and threw mine in. Just a little note about the dryer, it is a completely out-dated piece that literally looks like an old oven. And to add to that, you can set the timer, but once you open the door to see if your clothes are done...you are, whether the clothes are dry or not. You'll have to chunk in another token to continue/start-over. Sucky. Luckily the majority of my clothes were dry at this point minus a couple shirts which I was able to layout across table in my room to continue drying.

So Sunday turned out to be an uneventful day.