California!!!

Our California Adventure!!!!

California here we come!! we decided to take a short weekend trip over labor day weekend and visit the sunny skies of california. we were long overdue for a new adventure, and we sure got what we were looking for. after a very long drive (I don't mix very well with cars and when I'm in one past my limit strange symptoms start to occur, such as: annoyance, utterance of vulgar words, and barfing. short of kicking and screaming i'm really no more pleasant then a three year old. it's hell for all involved.) at very late and awkward hours and coasting on gas fumes more then once we made it! horray! califonia was a golden ticket to a couple days of freedom and pleasure, the trip was perfect minus the part where we almost got eaten alive in our sleep!!!!!!!!
our plan was to stay in the marriott but since we are all low on extra fun spending funds we decided to stay at roadway inn for 70 bucks a night!!! so we get there and it looks fine, nothing worse then we've stayed in before, nothing better either- but all the same we were there to go to disneyland not be in a hotel all day. The rooms were decent and clean enough. The toilet did have a sign that warned us to only flush once and if clogged go and get maintenance immediately, but other then that all was good. as long as i kept my flip flops on at all time and at all costs and slept on my own blankets there would be nothing to fear. or so i thought.....

we immediately went to the beach when we got there so we hurried and unpacked and changed to head out. we had a lovely time at the beach, took some nice photos and headed back to the hotel around 10. we were all tired and in a hurry to go to sleep because we wanted to get to the disneyland's gates right when they opened. i was the first to shower and climb into a bed that was nicely protected from germs and hair by my blankies, when I saw it! There crawling through my sheets like the king of the world was a tiny little red bug! of course I notified all males of the intruder and was immediately told to stop freaking out and there was nothing to fear and to knock it off and be grateful for my 70 dollar hotel room! so we all went to bed after that without another thought, until.....

We'd all fallen asleep when cassie's (my cousin) husband dane jumps out of bed and yells "son of a bleep!" and james and i sit up and are like "what is wrong with dane, does he have terrets?" so cassie asks him what the junk he's all about and that is when he tells us something is biting his neck!!!!!! Cassie hurry and flips on the light next to the bed and (if you have a weak stomach do not read this next part, I shiver just thinking about it!) as soon as the light went on we watched hundreds of little black bugs (and some red ones!!) just scatter off our their pillows and sheets!! i've never seen so many bugs or something so disgusting in my life. The beds were infested with bed bugs!!!!! disgusting! so of course they push back the mattress and sure enough there are just thousand and thousands of bugs scurrying everywhere. the black ones were just little tiny specks, if you saw only one you wouldn't have been able to tell it was a bug or even noticed it, but seeing that many all at once you can't but help notice it. And sure enough in the mounds of black specks are numerous red bugs that I had found and showed everyone and was told to stop being a germaphobe worry wart! so obviously we aren't going to stay there one more second and we have to get out of there as quickly as possible. but cassie's family is still snoozing in the other room and we have to tell and show them what happened. so we go in to tell them, but cassie doesn't want her sister lindsay to find out because lindsay has a four month old baby and she will wig out if she finds out her baby is sleeping in a bug infested bed. But when we wake up her parents lindsay over heard and jumps up only to see one of the red bed bugs crawling down her little babies face!!!!! so lindsay just starts freaking out! just bawling and going into hysteria, like any mother should an all of us wanted to do. We go get the manager on duty to look at our room, he comes and see's that we aren't lying! they're all in a panic and embarrassed at what happened. so we're all packing up to leave and find a new hotel when the manager comes back and tells us we can just move to the next room over because they've checked it and there are no bugs! yea right! we will not be sleeping in this bug infested motel, let alone the bug infested bed! james kindly declined his offer and we left after getting a full refund. But it wasn't over yet!
Haydn and dane (cassie and lindsay's husbands) had gone down to marriott to get us a room and sure enough as they were standing in the hotel lobby haydn feels something bite his skin and he looks down and there on his stomach is a bed bug!!!! aaaahhhh!!!!! that means that we are all completely infested. there are bugs galore crawling over our skin, hair and clothes. that means that we can't go and sleep in our new clean beds with our infested pajamas, and we can't bring our infested luggage (i forgot to mention not only do bed bugs get in beds, they also live in the carpet) into our new clean rooms!!! therefore we have to wash everything before we can go back to our normal state of minds. so we go into the laundry room and of course all their washers and dryers are full! who in their right mind would be doing laundry at this hour unless they were infested with bed bugs!!! so we try and find a walmart to get the detergent and lysol because we have to fumigate everything!!! we have to track down a security guard to let us in the arcade room to change our bills into quarters. oh it was such the ordeal so we start laundry about 1:30 in the morning!!! and we have to wash everything, clothes that we haven't even worn have to be washed because all of our luggage had been left open on the hotel floor so the bugs have crawled into our suitcases and infested every piece of clothing and cloth they could get into. at one point we thought we were being a little over protective and thought maybe we should take it down a notch and that is when i saw another bed bug crawl out of the bag that had been with us all day!!! this bag hadn't been in the hotel, it had only been in the room since we got home from the beach and in a mere couple of hours of being on the floor it had gotten infested!! after that we kept finding them, on shirts, hats, in luggage all over. when we would pull the clothes out of the laundry we would find more bugs that had died during the wash fall out of our clothes!!! it was crazy!!!! as a result of finding all these bugs in our luggage and bags we ended up having to throw a lot of things away! our pillows had to be chucked, the babies diapers had to be thrown away (and you know how expensive they are!) everything, everything we couldn't wash was gone. it was so ridiculous. forty dollars on laundry later and at 4 in the morning we finally all went to sleep. we had to stay up because our last batch of laundry was the clothes we were wearing, our pj's. and we had to be so careful when we were changing out of our dirty clothes in the bathroom. when cassie's parents were changing their clothes they found two more bugs. i'm not exaggerating when I tell you we were completely covered in bugs. it was so gross!!
Now you know all about our California Adventure! you should always check your bed no matter where you are sleeping!!!!!! it was ridiculous. if dane hadn't woken up when he got bit we would of brought them home with us because they were embedded in everything!!! no more cheap hotels for us and unfortuneately my germaphobia just reached higher levels. beware!!!
Other then this sick little spell bugs taking over our lives the trip was really fun. The rides were awesome, the weather was perfect, the food delicious one of our more fun vacations and we learned a lot too, so just beware next time you go out of town or else you could be carrying home a few thousand visitors with you!!!