Is This a Fantasy?

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to go to Reno for work. It was a Friday morning meeting so I decided to stay and take the red eye home Saturday and check out Lake Tahoe. A friend of mine knew a friend in Lake Tahoe that owned a hotel and he offered to put me up free for the night. Being single (and frankly cheap), I was all over the offer. After spending a tranquil day exploring the majestic scenery, I checked into the Fantasy Inn. Turns out the hotel was a couple's retreat. Being by myself, I immediately checked in, slinked quietly upstairs to my room, locked the door.

Then, I was in for a surprise! The bed was on a raised platform in the middle of the room with mirrors on the ceiling. There was a fireplace that you could buy wood for. There was an assortment of bath oils, champagne, and bubbles that could be purchased from the mini bar. The shower was an open structure in the corner. It was extremely interesting, but hey it's free, so it's for me!

I slunk back out of the hotel and spent a fun evening at the Hard Rock Casino watching Yankee baseball, drinking martinis in the roof top bar and getting an aqua massage. I returned back to the hotel, slunk back to my room, locked the door, placed a chair in front of the door for good measure and put some ear plugs in. A girl can never be too careful - you have no idea what could be going on in the other rooms!

Everything was fine until 3 am! I woke up disoriented and thought there was someone in my room. As I started screaming and swinging my arms to "fight", I finally realized, I was looking through my contact-free eyes at the reflection in the ceiling mirror! FFS! After some deep breathing to get my heart rate out of the cardiac arrest range, I went back to sleep for the rest of the night.

Saturday was fun, more exploring of this awesome place before the red eye home to Michigan. The moral of the story: Sometimes free is NOT for me!