Jody, Sherrica, and Dan at the Marriott

Wow, what an adventure this has been so far!!!

Okay, taking us back to Sunday. We left Casper without any problems. Katie took us to the airport. The gate agent let us go out first as it takes me a little longer. Our flight from Casper to Minneapolis was quiet and uneventful.

The Minneapolis airport was easy to get around and we easily found our next gate connection within 10 minutes. We were so very blessed to find an excellent restaurant in the airport, right by our gate, that made great salads and wonderful homemade soups. And, the best part was it was extremely affordable, We've never eaten that well for that price in any airport.
While waiting for time to board Dan visited with the gate agent and she moved our seats up closer to the front of the plane AND gave us a row of three seats and blocked one out so I could lay down. We were so impressed. On top of it she said it was a very long jet way and would have a wheel chair take me right up to the door of the plane. Northwest airlines definitly has our vote!

When we arrived in Nashville they had a wheelchair to take me from the plane. Then, they just turned the wheelchair over to Dan and said use it as long as you need and just leave it when you are done with it! So, Dan drove me right out to a waiting taxing and "literally"ran the wheelchair back as the taxi drove off with door open, me in it and no Dan who dove in with the taxi still moving!

We made it. The taxi whisked us away to The Days Inn Vanderbilt. The lobby was very nice and even had a leather couch, just like home. We checked in, excited to finally be here.

From there it went rapidly down hill. No business center for internet access, no hot tub, no pool, no restaurant, NOTHING. The place was a total DUMP. Dan asked for a close room and she gave us 0ne in another building down (all the rooms have outside entrances) a dark unlit path. Dan said NO. So, she gave us one in the other building but it was right across the parking lot. We walked into the room and it STUNK! and it was dirty. So, Dan said don't move and ran back across the parking lot. Then she gave us a room in the main building. We had to walk through a very smokey hallway to get to our non-smoking room, but we made it and it smelled much better. (Dan says, but so do baby diapers). It wasn't long before we noticed the green stuff dripping off of the ceiling and this morning we noticed the mold growing from the ceiling in the shower. The beds were very, very small for two people. We were still trying to convince ourselves that things were going to work out when a fight started outside our door, right next to the elevator, between a man and woman. After that, we tried to settle in to bed. I had finally managed to dose off when someone started knocking on our door. Dan looked out the peephole and started running to put his pants on. I asked him who it was and he just said two girls. By the time he got dressed they were walking on down the hall. He asked if he could help them and and they just waved their beers and cigarettes at him.

Now, our room smelled like a bar!

Not sure what the rest of the night would reveal, neither one of us slept very well.
With the light of morning we realized how dirty our room really was, along with the rest of the motel. Dan went around taking pictures of the filthy hallway floors, dirty elevators, some strange green stuff on our room carpet. Etc, etc.

At this point, we knew, we couldn't stay here for an entire week. So, we went for a walk. And walked right into a lovely Courtyard Marriott with a wonderful front desk clerk, Sherrica. They immediately made things right for us and even offered to send their shuttle across the street to help Dan bring our luggage over.

So, the moral of the story is, We do not recommend that you stay at the Days Inn Crackhouse in downtown Nashville!

More updates as things develop. Tomorrow is my testing and Doctor appointment. Now that I am in a safe environment, I can actually start to to get excited about tomorrow.