{"id":294,"date":"2007-06-01T02:55:40","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T02:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2007-06-08T16:56:27","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T16:56:27","slug":"rubber-ducky-youre-the-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Rubber Ducky You’re the One"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fun to go on a long trip. I started a 12 hour driving venture with my sweetheart.<\/p>\n

Since it was such a long trip we decided to drive six hours and wound up in Staunton, Virginia.<\/p>\n

As I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve gotten older, I like to stay in hotels less and less. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just something about staying in a place that you know many folks have stayed in before you. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No matter how clean it looks,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I thought to myself \u00e2\u20ac\u0153it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not as clean as you want you place to be when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re sleeping and living in it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Well, my thoughts were challenged today. We decided on a hotel right off the interstate \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a Sleep Inn. I had heard of that chain but had never stayed at one.<\/p>\n

This place was different.<\/p>\n

We were greeted by Bill at the desk. When he saw where we were from, he immediately started up a conversation about his father who had worked on the Amtrak commuter train years ago. He mentioned they stopped at Columbia and often had over 600 passengers on those long trips.<\/p>\n

Bill was not the usual front desk man. He was actually quite pleasant and spoke to me each time he saw me\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6calling my name.<\/p>\n

He said breakfast will be tomorrow morning\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6complimentary, of course. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is wireless internet\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said when I asked. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Complimentary.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

I smiled as I walked to the room. I placed my toiletries on the counter\"rubber-ducky.jpg\"<\/a> and spotted a tiny yellow ducky on the sink with a note that said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Take me my friend, to remind you of where you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6in hopes you will return again.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Now I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know about you, but I like little rubber duckies and this one is really cute.<\/p>\n

Will I go back there again? You bet I will.<\/p>\n

On the way out that next morning after a pleasant rest and a great breakfast, we engaged the maids in pleasant conversation and mentioned that I just LOVED the ducky\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6next thing I knew, we had four more to go with the other one!<\/p>\n

My wish for you today<\/strong> is that you have a pleasant experience with a hotel like we did\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and that you, too, have a chance to add a little rubber ducky or two to your family!<\/p>\n

~ Joellen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fun to go on a long trip. I started a 12 hour driving venture with my sweetheart. Since it was such a long trip we decided to drive six hours and wound up in Staunton, Virginia. As I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve gotten older, I like to stay in hotels less and less. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just something about staying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}