Today, I had to check out of our hotel rooms while Kyle was at work. I spent the morning packing stuff up and hauling it out to the van, which meant leaving Ethan in charge of making sure that nobody escaped the hotel room while I was gone. To help deter them from getting into stuff or wanting to escape, I let them play on the wii (which Kyle had previously set up for me).
I thought it would be easiest to empty one of the rooms first. I then inspected it to make sure I packed up everything, then I shut the door to keep the kids out of it. I didn’t want them taking stuff back in there and then leave something behind. Then I finished packing up the second room. When I got down to the last little bit left in the room I decided to just take the kids to the van as well as the final bit of luggage. I had them help carry the last bit and then we were out of the hotel. I swung around to the front and dropped our keys off with the front desk to officially check out. Then I drove to Symantec. He had said that there were people on his team that kept asking when he was going to bring his family in so they could meet us, and I didn’t really have anywhere else to go after checking out of the hotel. Apparently his coworkers also asked about cake balls, but I didn’t make any to bring on the trip (I’m not sure they would have survived the trip) and they are not something I could make while in a hotel room! Kyle was still working when we got there, so I made sandwiches to feed the kids in the car.
When Kyle was done working for the day (which was earlier today than the last two days), he came out to the van to get us. He had to sign each of us in, and the lady at the front desk had to make each of us a visitors tag before we could pass security. The building is a large one, with trees growing inside. The kids thought that was kind of weird. Kyle took us up to where his team was and he introduced us to them. A couple of the guys had nerf guns and let the kids shoot them off. Which resulted in needing to go fetch the darts. The rest of Kyle’s team were heading off to go have lunch and then to go play lazer tag. Since Kyle had his family there with him, he got permission to be excused from those activities. Kyle took us on a tour of the rest of the building, before we turned in our badges and left.