08.06.05 - 2nd Annual West Coast Kenpo Confederation
The Seaport Marina Hotel
Walt had done some research online and stated that some of the photos and descriptions suggested the hotel was right on the beach. I think he was looking forward to some R&R on the beach on Friday night before things got started on Saturday morning, and to be honest that sounded pretty good to me too. Nothing doing. We check in at the front desk and notice there is a sign stating there would be a get together in one of the meeting rooms that night at 8:00pm. Fine. We get our stuff in our rooms and settle in for a while before we come up and meet everyone. No problem.
The hotel looked like it was built in the 60’s or early 70’s and was in need of some upkeep. The rooms were basically clean though and the bed relatively comfortable. The fluorescent light in my bathroom just flickered and wouldn’t come on so I used the heat lamp in the ceiling to see by. It was a bit of a struggle to get the water on in the bathroom as the pull-type handle just didn’t want to be pulled out! I actually had to lean into it with some body weight to get the faucet to come on. But for these minor inconveniences, there was a large 36x60 tiled shower and it worked great. As it turned out, I spent an incredibly short amount of time in that room anyway.
After getting settled into our rooms, we met down in the lobby briefly and decided to go for a walk down by the marina. There was a 4-lane road between the hotel property and the marina so it was a quick walk across the street to get over there. We had just gotten to the marina walkway when Bill received a call on his phone from Vic LeRoux regarding the get together at the hotel later that night. What we perceived as an informal get together was suddenly a workout session from 6:00 to 10:00pm. Bill wanted to be up there a few minutes early, of course, so we determined we would be ready to go by 5:45pm.
This news upped our time schedule quite a bit and we decided we had better get something to eat so it had a little time to settle before we go work out. There were several restaurants in the immediate area around the hotel and we ultimately decided on the California Pizza Kitchen as the place to go. We all had our own little pizza’s and enjoyed a good meal together before heading back up to the hotel for the few minutes we had remaining.
Walt had done some research online and stated that some of the photos and descriptions suggested the hotel was right on the beach. I think he was looking forward to some R&R on the beach on Friday night before things got started on Saturday morning, and to be honest that sounded pretty good to me too. Nothing doing. We check in at the front desk and notice there is a sign stating there would be a get together in one of the meeting rooms that night at 8:00pm. Fine. We get our stuff in our rooms and settle in for a while before we come up and meet everyone. No problem.
The hotel looked like it was built in the 60’s or early 70’s and was in need of some upkeep. The rooms were basically clean though and the bed relatively comfortable. The fluorescent light in my bathroom just flickered and wouldn’t come on so I used the heat lamp in the ceiling to see by. It was a bit of a struggle to get the water on in the bathroom as the pull-type handle just didn’t want to be pulled out! I actually had to lean into it with some body weight to get the faucet to come on. But for these minor inconveniences, there was a large 36x60 tiled shower and it worked great. As it turned out, I spent an incredibly short amount of time in that room anyway.
After getting settled into our rooms, we met down in the lobby briefly and decided to go for a walk down by the marina. There was a 4-lane road between the hotel property and the marina so it was a quick walk across the street to get over there. We had just gotten to the marina walkway when Bill received a call on his phone from Vic LeRoux regarding the get together at the hotel later that night. What we perceived as an informal get together was suddenly a workout session from 6:00 to 10:00pm. Bill wanted to be up there a few minutes early, of course, so we determined we would be ready to go by 5:45pm.
This news upped our time schedule quite a bit and we decided we had better get something to eat so it had a little time to settle before we go work out. There were several restaurants in the immediate area around the hotel and we ultimately decided on the California Pizza Kitchen as the place to go. We all had our own little pizza’s and enjoyed a good meal together before heading back up to the hotel for the few minutes we had remaining.
posted by Bonzai at 8/06/2005 11:01:00 AM
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