A Desert Oasis

CHAPTER 4

The main reason we went on this trip was to meet up with Jake and Jackie and their parents at the Fairmont resort in Scottsdale where Jackie’s brother Dillon was the manager of the hotel’s nicest restaurant, and as such was able to get us all some really good room rates. The Fairmont is not the kind of place we typically have the good fortune of staying at, which was immediately evident to all the staff when we rolled up to the main entrance in our dust covered Land Cruiser, road weary and dirty from four nights of camping, realized that they were going to charge me for the valet to park the truck, and promptly sped off to park it myself. We got a pleasant surprise when we finally did check in- Dillon had arranged for us to get a room upgrade- and boy was it an upgrade! Our “suite” was literally as big as our entire house. Even so, we didn’t waste too much time in the room ogling over our amazing bump in circumstances- the pool, and more importantly, the poolside drinks were beckoning…

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