Mel: Where to even begin?
Kate: Perhaps with finding out that our hotel had no record whatsoever of us and ended up sending us to a death trap? Too far? Hyperbole much?
Mel : I don't think so. If you are locked inside your room with a flooding bathroom, that is a literal death trap situation. If there had been a fire or if you had choked on the Monster Mix, it would have been a bad scene.
Kate: OK, let's back up for the peeps. Basically, we were scheduled to stay at the super cute Casa del Capitel Nazari in Granada and, despite having our printed-out reservation and emails, they had no record of us and sent us to another hotel 20 minutes away for the night. That's where shit got a little dicey...
Mel: First the bathroom flooded while you were showering because the drain was broken. All of a sudden I saw a wave of water coming from under the the bathroom door into our room.
Kate: I honestly thought you were exaggerating until I opened the door and could see my reflection in the puddle.
Mel: The only reason the whole room didn't flood was because the carpet absorbed some of the water.
Kate : Dios Mio! I've always wanted to say that :). Well our Spanish-Moroccan vacation certainly got off to an eventful start.
Kate: But we soldiered on and got ready for dinner. Sadly, our plans were thwarted as we tried to leave and couldn't open the door.
Mel: That's when things got bad. We weren't going to let a flooded room get to us but being trapped in a hotel room is another story. I honestly thought at first that I was just doing something dumb or was willing to blame sleep deprivation or that maybe I just didn't understand how Spanish doors work?
Kate: Well those Spanish doors ARE notoriously tricky.
Mel: Hah, I did feel a little better when you also couldn't open it... until I realized that meant we were trapped in a hotel room.
Kate: Not to be confused with R. Kelly's "Trapped in a Closet" of course. And then we realized we couldn't make any calls on our cell phones, had no internet access and the room phone wasn't working,
Mel: And the water kept advancing across the room.
Kate: By sheer luck and you just pressing random buttons on the room phone, we finally got through to the front desk and it's almost like they were expecting our call.
Mel: I was so relieved. I was thisclose to banging on the door and screaming in my broken Spanish. All I could think at that point was how screwed we would be if there was a fire. We would have had to pull a Sydney Bristow and rappel down five stories or shimmy through a vent.
Kate: Well I have watched Alias multiple times and you have serious MacGyver skills. I think we'd survive. Or we would end up turning on each other for the last of the Monster Mix.
Mel: Thank god that hot Spanish handyman showed up to let us out... and replace the door!
Kate : I seriously thought he was gonna be like you idiots and just turn the knob and it would magically work. I felt so vindicated when he busted out that drill!
Mel : Seriously! His eyes also really bugged out when he saw all that water.
Mel: That's when things got bad. We weren't going to let a flooded room get to us but being trapped in a hotel room is another story. I honestly thought at first that I was just doing something dumb or was willing to blame sleep deprivation or that maybe I just didn't understand how Spanish doors work?
Kate: Well those Spanish doors ARE notoriously tricky.
Mel: Hah, I did feel a little better when you also couldn't open it... until I realized that meant we were trapped in a hotel room.
Kate: Not to be confused with R. Kelly's "Trapped in a Closet" of course. And then we realized we couldn't make any calls on our cell phones, had no internet access and the room phone wasn't working,
Mel: And the water kept advancing across the room.
Kate: By sheer luck and you just pressing random buttons on the room phone, we finally got through to the front desk and it's almost like they were expecting our call.
Mel: I was so relieved. I was thisclose to banging on the door and screaming in my broken Spanish. All I could think at that point was how screwed we would be if there was a fire. We would have had to pull a Sydney Bristow and rappel down five stories or shimmy through a vent.
Kate: Well I have watched Alias multiple times and you have serious MacGyver skills. I think we'd survive. Or we would end up turning on each other for the last of the Monster Mix.
Mel: Thank god that hot Spanish handyman showed up to let us out... and replace the door!
Kate : I seriously thought he was gonna be like you idiots and just turn the knob and it would magically work. I felt so vindicated when he busted out that drill!
Mel : Seriously! His eyes also really bugged out when he saw all that water.
Kate: And within five minutes, the entire staff including two managers were at our door investigating.
Mel: The bright side was that they were super sweet and insisted on giving us a new room. I just felt so awkward when the handyman helped us carry our stuff and showed up with his hands full of our toiletries.
Kate: Thank god it was only Advil and Q-tips, not jumbo tampons and Immodium.
Mel : So true! I still can't believe that our first three hours in Spain involved changing hotels and then changing rooms.
Kate : But in the end, we rallied, had a bombass meal, laughed it off, and wrote this post while drinking the free bottle of champagne the hotel gave us to "forget our problems."
Mel : It also inspired us to watch "Trapped in a Closet" in the hotel
room that night - and when else would we really have had the time to do that?
Mel: The bright side was that they were super sweet and insisted on giving us a new room. I just felt so awkward when the handyman helped us carry our stuff and showed up with his hands full of our toiletries.
Kate: Thank god it was only Advil and Q-tips, not jumbo tampons and Immodium.
Mel : So true! I still can't believe that our first three hours in Spain involved changing hotels and then changing rooms.
Kate : But in the end, we rallied, had a bombass meal, laughed it off, and wrote this post while drinking the free bottle of champagne the hotel gave us to "forget our problems."
Mel : It also inspired us to watch "Trapped in a Closet" in the hotel
room that night - and when else would we really have had the time to do that?