2 Days and Counting!!

Well, if I am going to be truly honest, I have to say today was ROUGH!!!! I have not been this stressed out in a VERY long time. For those of you who know me well, you know that it really takes a lot to really stress me out. Well, today I was sent over the edge. It was a Dr. Pepper, crying, disappointed, frustrated, stressful kind of day. But, it's nearly over now and tomorrow is a new day. So here's a run-down of the day.

• Adam is done with school for the year, so he stayed home today while G was at daycare and I was at work, with all intentions of cleaning the house! Woo Hoo!!!
• Got the email we had been waiting for at 10:30 from our agency. No hotels available that we requested. Now we're on our own with our travel agent to find a place to stay
• Called travel agent to see what he could find. He wasn't very helpful, but booked us a room (without a kitchen, washer/dryer, or kid friendly ammenities) (hotel #1)
• We keep working on our end to find something better
• EV.ERY.THING is booked. It's a holiday weekend we find out!
• By 3:00 we finally found a hotel that was a decent price and had a kitchen, but was a little too luxurious for us and had too many breakables in the room for a 2 yr old. (hotel #2)
• I called G's daycare provider, L, to find out what she thought about the area. She said it was a great area, but far from where we wanted to be.
• She gave us the name of a hotel she had stayed at and began helping us research it. (hotel #3)
• We called them and found out they had the first 3 days available, were booked solid the next 3 days, but then could have us back for the end of our trip. Bummer!
• We asked L if she would call to see what she could find out since she speaks Korean. And, she was able to put rooms on hold for us for every night, except one.
• We called back to book it and give our cc# and miraculously they had all nights finally available. So, we finally have a room at the same hotel for all 8 nights we are there. We will have to move rooms within the hotel at least once, but at this point, we don't care.
• Called to cancel hotel #1 that travel agent booked. Were told we would have to pay for one night becuase we were not cancelling within 72 hrs of arrival. Disputed this, and will continue to if charged for it since we were told something different by travel agent.
• 10 hrs after we started this morning, we finally were booked with a consistent hotel and a confirmation number! Whew!!!!
• Had to send G off with friends tonight so we could continue working on this until 8:00
• No house cleaning was done
• But, G's clothes did get pulled out and organized.
• Tomorrow will be busy!!!!

Thank you all for your prayers. We are happy with the place we will be staying. We are close to several of the places that were on our list to see and we have a park across the street! There is also a grocery store across the street and we have a kitchen in our room. We got a good deal for booking so this late in the game, thanks to L. She even got us 2 days of free breakfast and free dishes/plate rental (I suppose for use in the kitchen).