Fort Collins

Kind of last minute, we decided to head North to Fort Collins to check out the area to see if it was a possible future home site. Well, it also happened to be Homecoming for CSU, so most of the hotels were full. Well, Benson found a hotel with vacancy . . . our first warning sign. The rooms were very inexpensive, so we rented two rooms to fit all of us in for two nights (2nd warning sign). I looked the hotel up online and saw that 36 people had given this hotel a one star rating . . . uh oh! Well, we get there, and as we are walking down the hall, the kids are noticing that some of the number signs next to the doors are missing and in their place is a number scribbled on the wall with sharpie. We open our room and there is a hole in one wall, stickers on the pictures hanging on the walls, and no warm water in one of the showers. We go downstairs to swim and discover that the hot tub is not working at all, and the pool heater is broken, so it is freezing cold. Only Kennedi is tough enough to jump in. After a very short time at the pool, we go back to the rooms to go to bed. The rooms are right next to each other, connected by one door. Luckily, we leave it open and Talie, Ashy, Dallin and Peyton are in one room, while Benson, Kennedi, Tanner and I are in the other. We go to sleep and the next thing I know I hear voices in the next room . . . our kids room! I shoot up in bed and start yelling at these two drunk men who are in the other room. Benson, groggily wakes up and when he realizes what's going on, he goes in the other room and yells at the men and kicks them out of the room. The hotel had actually checked these two drunk men into the same room as our kids at 2:07 in the morning. Needless to say, we didn't stay a second night and we got all of our money back.
The rest of the time we went driving around, checking out the neighborhoods, the town, and the new temple sight. If you were to ask the kids what they thought about Fort Collins, they would say that it has the worst hotel in the world, and that all we did was drive around. We did have two highlights though. We went to a little ice cream shop in old town Fort Collins and the kids ate at Cracker Barrel for the first time. Oh, if you're wondering, no I don't think that Fort Collins will be the location of our next home.