About 15 minutes into my attempt to sleep I started to itch on the side I was laying on.\u00a0 WTF.\u00a0 I went into the bathroom and my arms looked like they had been sunburned.\u00a0 My feet, ankles and arms, anything exposed and touching the sheets were bright red, itchy and uncomfortable.\u00a0 I fought for a couple of hours of sleep.\u00a0 During the night I found a Springhill Marriott that had availability and prepared myself to let Sara know.\u00a0 When she woke up I told her we had a problem.\u00a0 During the night I had messaged my mother.\u00a0 Her advice?\u00a0 Pull the sheets back and look for bed bug poop!\u00a0 Yeah, that did NOT help.\u00a0 Hell no, I didn’t check.\u00a0 Sara being the easy going one said no problem.\u00a0 We went to the front office, got out of our reservation and moved to the Springhill where there was a room already available for us at 10 am.\u00a0 The front desk gal, Myra and I were chatting. It’s kind of what I do.\u00a0 Somehow due to the #belikehayley bracelet we shared losess and it came out that she had lost her baby son recently, he had been born at 5 months and only lived 2 days.\u00a0 She said she knows how she feels after knowing him for 2 days she could not imagine losing 19 years of memories and surviving.\u00a0 I gave her a Hayley bracelet.<\/p>\n
The room looked exactly like the one in Bellingham.\u00a0 Identical.\u00a0 I thought that would be hard.\u00a0 So many nights spent in Bellingham with Hayley at that hotel over the past few years.\u00a0 But it actually surprised me.\u00a0 It felt comforting, the familiar.\u00a0 Plus the sheets were super nice and very clean!\u00a0 No rash!\u00a0 It was meant to be.\u00a0 My friend, Stacy, was coming to Anaheim for her son’s Hockey tournament.\u00a0 She had said she was staying at the Marriott but I didn’t know if our schedules were going to mesh.\u00a0 Well get this.\u00a0 She walks into her hotel and the gal at the counter notices her blue be like Hayley bracelet while she is checking in and demands to know where she got it.\u00a0 Stacy told her about her friend and Hayley.\u00a0 That is when Myra pulled her sleeve up and showed her the blue bracelet that adorned her wrist!\u00a0 What?\u00a0 Myra told her we were there.\u00a0 Stacy messaged me and said we were in the same hotel.\u00a0 For the entire day Sara and I tried to figure out how she would know this?\u00a0 I had not told anyone where we were.\u00a0 It was perplexing but I was happy I would see her on my birthday.\u00a0 Well that wasn’t all the information Stacy got out of Myra.\u00a0 Stacy is from New Jersey, enough said.\u00a0 When we walked to our room the door was decorated with hanging streamers in the Troll movie theme with a birthday card on the door!![\"\"](\"http:\/\/hayleysmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27292817_10215396429253085_2005559482_n-225x300.jpg\")
\u00a0 Sara and I felt like we were back on Dance Team and at State where we decorated our doors.\u00a0 We left it up the rest of the time we were there.<\/p>\n
Even though the ride was closed for refurbishment, it truly was a Small World!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Disclaimer:\u00a0 I enjoyed my vacation, I am thankful for my vacation and spending that much time with my longest friend was exactly what I needed.\u00a0 Therefore if I say anything negative please refer to the disclaimer. Hayley and I had plans.\u00a0 Big Plans, small plans, all kinds of plans.\u00a0 We planned to buy or rent … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/hayleysmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27398696_10215396426453015_661815127_o-300x225.jpg\")
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