Another (almost) brilliant plan
So we had this gift certificate for a free night at a nice downtown hotel. It was a door prize or part of a silent auction package that we got at a charity event last spring and it was about to expire. With our place in the throes of renovation madness (kitchen stuff in boxes everywhere; just-assembled cabinets stacked up in the living room and bedroom), we thought it would be fun to spend an evening in the luxurious neatness of the Hotel Allegro.
We decided on Sunday night, since it offered the added bonus of watching The Sopranos on HBO.
We watch about 30 minutes of television per day, so it's hard to make an argument for paying for a premium channel, although I suspect we'd watch more tv if we had HBO. But can you really say that's a good thing?
Still, its absence from our home does make us feel even less hip and in-touch than usual.
Thus, the formation of a super-cool plan for Sunday night that would involve watching the Sopranos in a king-size bed while eating ice cream from room service.
Things were looking great as we checked into our room and discovered the animal-print (one leopard; one zebra) robes waiting there in the closet for us. How much would Tony love that?
One tiny flaw in our plan: the Allegro doesn't get HBO.
So we watched the first two episodes of the Discovery Channel series, Perfect Disaster. Dallas was destoryed by a super tornado and New York taken out by a solar storm. Fun stuff.
