Cupertino, CA Day One

Cupertino was not exactly 100% peaceful for me. It's right outside of San Jose, where we were last year, so I have been to this area before. The BEST part about this city was that Darrel's brother, Dusty, lives here with his girlfriend Laura.

I worked all day on Wednesday, and noticed there was a washer and dryer down the hall from my room. Score! Laundry right around the corner. So I gather up all of my workout clothes and dark stuff, and throw it in with a top full of liquid soap. I push the money in, and the machine does not start. What?! The front desk comes, tells me it can be "temperamental" and gets it started. I come back 15 minutes later to dump my Downy in, and all looks fine in laundry land. I come back 15 minutes later to switch my clothes to the dryer, lift the lid, and see this:

It had decided to break during the rinse cycle, with all of my clothes sitting in hot water and Downy. The front desk tells me they can have housekeeping do it for me, but they use automatic washers that distribute bleach and no softener. And I can't access the dryer to pull things out so they don't shrink. No thanks. So they give me a bucket, I pull all of my dripping wet clothes out of the washer, and Darrel and I walk over to the Marriott (with little tears in my eyes) so I can re-do the whole thing. Usually this would be fine, but I had timed it so that I could take a shower and get to work on time. Darrel wound up getting my stuff out of the Marriott dryer as I dried my hair and put mascara on at the same time. I DID get a free bottle of wine as an apology from the hotel.

All of my clothes in the bucket on the way to The Marriott

After the show (nothing to write about there), we went to a Scottish pub with Dusty and Laura. It was so much fun! Darrel has only seen his brother twice in two years because he used to live in Hawaii, so we decided to celebrate. I don't even know how this happened, but the bar tab for the four of us was $198.00. What!? I guess the Patron and Wild Turkey they were drinking was a bit on the expensive side. It was worth it though- it was so fun to see them!