Typical Sylvie

I must blog about this before I forget. After our fun-packed, but exhausting days at Disneyland, I got up the following morning at our hotel and tried to sneak out to go eat a delicious, hot cooked breakfast downstairs. The hotel was set up where there was a huge atrium in the middle of balconies looking down onto it. There are two glass elevators in the middle of the hotel going down to the atrium where breakfast is served. Just as I was slipping out the door, one child woke up and soon 3 children were awake and wanted to go downstairs with me. So, the 4 of us headed down to eat. I got the kids food first and got them settled while they ate. Then I went to get my food which took a while since I toasted some bread and got some eggs to order. I finally sat down to eat and all the kids were done eating. Lucia had to go to the bathroom and so Marco and Sylvie decided they wanted to go back to the room as well. I didn’t want to leave my uneaten breakfast on the table (I should have just taken it up to the room with me), so I left it and walked the kids to the elevator, put them in the elevator and told Lucia to push 4. I watched the doors close and went back to my table to eat. Suddenly a loud alarm went off and I look up at the glass elevator to see my kids jumping and crying and the elevator stopped between floors. I wasn’t the only one staring at them-all of the guests and hotel workers were too! People were gasping and saying, “Who’s kids are those?”  I ran over to the elevator and tried to get it to come down, but since Sylvie pushed the alarm it was stuck. I ran up the two floors and got the doors open as employees were running around trying to figure out how to turn off the alarm. I was so mortified. I ran back to our room with the kids and refused to leave until we checked out and I went out the back stairs.  Lucia said she did push 4, but as soon as they started moving, Sylvie pushed the emergency button. Typical Sylvie. It did freak her out pretty bad and I doubt she’ll get into an elevator for a long time.

Here is a picture of the kids outside our room at the hotel.