Our Hotel

Okay. That's it. If you look really closely there is a guy on TV smiling, but he is the only one in the room that's happy. Also, this is day 1. Now there is more of our stuff strewn out on every available inch of table space and on the floor. See the window on the left? That is our AC. It works awesome at night, but not so much during the day, so Malinda says.

It's fun to make fun of our room, and the only thing that keeps me from ripping into it more is that the people that work here are SUPER nice. They wished me luck when I left in a suit this morning to start work. When I called to talk to Malinda and they answer the phone with their Italian jibberish, and I'm just like "hey, this is Ryan from room 41" they say "ok, I think your wife is in the room I will connect you!" So we have to give them props.


Check out the headboard. Yes those are windows. Into what you ask???












OUR CLOSET! Maybe you can tell from this shot, that the closet is about two pillows wide. Again, this was day one. Right now this is full of suitcases, hanging clothes, and dirty laundry. By the way, we have no way to do our laundry. Apparently, the Swiss "don't wash their dirty linens in public" so there are no laundromats. At least we have seen none, and when we asked our guide, she suggested dry cleaning. But, remember the rule of 3? Dry cleaning is 10x. Not kidding.









This is the computer room at the hotel, I swear to God, we are not making this stuff up! This is me 5 minutes ago! There is no toilet in here, but I wouldn't be surprised if there used to be one right under the computer. It's the perfect spot. The floor is carpeted now, but this was a bathroom.

True story... I have only had about 8 hours of sleep since I left Memphis on Saturday. It has to be some kind of world record (can someone check that out?). We were up about 24 hours just getting here and forcing ourselves to stay awake until a normal bedtime, so we could hopefully get past jet lag easily. That worked like a charm for Malinda. She sleeps like a rock, like a big long rock that sleeps diagonally on a small bed. I went to sleep at about 10:30pm on the first night but woke up around 3:00am. I could not go back to sleep. Last night we jogged/walked around the lake and around the apartments that we saw, we tried to go past my office but overshot it by a couple of blocks, all with the side goal of working out our nerves and making ourselves tired. I again went to bed around 10pm, but this time woke up at 12:30, AND COULD NOT GO BACK TO SLEEP. I had my first day of work on that today. But, the coffee here is like crack, so I was good to go. Right now, I'm losing the ability to think clearly, so I have to sleep tonight. Cross your fingers...

Again, we love the comments. I love to hear you are laughing. Having a sense of humor is the only way we can make it through this. The posts are funny, because we have hours and hours of time to just think to ourselves, because we can't understand what anybody else is saying to us.

-Ryan