Boise, Idaho....O WHAT!?!?!

I just flew into Boise Idaho from Salt Lake City, Utah tonight and I am tired as hell.  Last night I stayed in possibly the nicest hotel I have ever stayed in, Marriott Courtyard City Centre in downtown Salt Lake.  It was awesome, they had a room on the 12th floor you could go to and they would give you dinner and treats and all types of food and drinks and stuff for free.   I missed the dinner, but i did get a couple cookies and a piece of cake.  After that great extravaganza, i decided i needed some real food instead of cookies and cake.  I left the hotel and, no joke, the streets were dead and nothing was open. This was at like 730.  I'm not sure if Utah closes everything down early because of a curfew or for Mormon religion ceremonies or what, but either way, i walked 4 blocks and didnt pass a single person or have a single car drive by.  I didnt see any bars either, and I would guess thats why nobody was really out on the town, not that people only go downtown to drink but ya know.   Besides it looking like a ghost town, Salt Lake was a pretty clean/okay city.   

The next day at the convention centre, this place was massive, i had to lug my AV case, 3 boxes (full of books), and a briefcase to the very end of the building where our room was.  To make it worse, the person "helping us" was this woman who was probably 5 foot tall, a little pudgy (im being nice), and rode around on a 3 wheeled stand up thing thats like a segway, but isnt because it has a third wheel.  It is meant for people who want to ride a segway but cant balance or are maybe just to large......YEA I SAID IT WHAT?!?!  She asks if we are from BER and we say yea and she goes, "Oh you guys came in on the wrong end.  Its all the way down there (points in other direction), follow me."  Well, she guns it on that little 3 wheeled contraption while I am left to drag 130 pounds of books and crap i need for the seminar a half mile down this convention centre walkway.  My speaker was like "Wow, she really moves on that thing."  By the time  I get down to the room I am sweating ridiculously and our "helper" was standing there eating a bagel.... Yea thanks lady.  Well she leaves and thats okay, everything goes as planned.  I usually go into the room to talk and give my little talk around noon.  I go into the room, and i dont know what the hell these 39 women were eating but inside the room it just smells of farts.  I had smelt that stench  before once in the country club after a room of 20 women ate limburgh cheese or something of that sort and all of them just sat around farting/crapping their pants with smiles on their faces while creating this god awful smell.  I stepped out briefly composed myself and bared the bog of eternal stench i was about to embark into.  Anyways, everything went off smoothly and I made it to my flight pretty easily and everything has gone good for this week so far.  

Presently I am in a Best Western Hotel in Boise, and it isnt bad compared to some of the stories i have heard about Best Westerns  in other states.  It also has a continental breakfast, which has come to become a huge deal to me at this job.  If a hotel offers a free breakfast, its awesome cuz its rare that hotels do that anymore.  Usually its just coffee in the lobby, which sucks.  Its weird to think that my life has come to bitching and critiquing hotels like i do now, but its a big part of my week and dont have much else to do but travel.  Well, anyways, I could walk to the airport which is 50 feet away, so getting to our flight to Seattle tomorrow wont be a problem.  I am really excited to fly home for a day and just be back in Seattle.  I am getting my car and going back to my apt to get some things and hang out for a few hours before i have to go back to The Coast Hotel in Bellevue.  Under contract I HAVE to stay in the same hotel that the speaker is in just so that I am available if there is an emergency or an issue that needs to be addressed and my help is needed.  After the seminar I fly to Honolulu where I will check into the Hilton and proceed to work until 3 o clock on friday and then stay in Honolulu and go visit my sister for the weekend.  People say OH MY GOD!!  YOU GET TO GO TO HAWAII?!?! Yea, and its pretty rad. I mean I'm stoked for it, but i also pay for it badly when I am in North Dakota and Wisconsin and Minnesota during the winter and there will be a 50/50 chance of me having to stayover a weekend in some podunk town i had to put on a seminar in but couldnt because a blizzard came and snowed us in and now I am stuck there for a couple days.  Bumfuck, North Dakota here I come!!! WOOHOO!!!  

Well I am tired and think that I have typed enough for one night.  I arrive back in Seattle at 6 tomorrow and will probably be all settled into the hotel by 7, so if anyone wants to hang out tomorrow night while i have a short time in town, let me know.  Have a good one.

Deuces from Boise, Idaho