we love warner's

a nice thing came in the mail for us yesterday.

no, not the premiere issue of supermodel phone numbers monthly (still waiting, still waiting!), but instead, something equally as unexpected and far fetched.

when we were in the last throes of our honeymoon last year in new zealand, there was a stretch where we were changing our hotel every day for three days in a row. that’s what happens when you don’t plan ahead. sure, “live by the moment,” they say. “it’s wonderful! you’re unburdened! you get freedom! choices!”

while this is all true, you also get the freedom to choose what hotel you want to try to find vacancy in because the room you’re where staying has been booked for the next evening.

somewhere in one of these swaps from one hotel to another, hmc lost her hat. not “blew her top” or lost her temper, but her actual hat. and not just any hat, but a nice straw black and white hat that she had in fact just bought earlier on our trip, i think at some fashionista store in sydney chinatown.

unfortunately, amidst all the moving and packing and unpacking and “unseasonable” torrential freezing rain, we didn’t realize this until two days later. hmc thought she knew exactly where she left it (on the tv in hotel #2), but we didn’t have time to go back or call them before we fled the country.

we called them from home and asked to see if they could find it, and they said that they would check, but at that point we basically wrote the fantastic hat off.

but what showed up in the mail yesterday? it was the lost hat! the nice people at the hotel not only found it, but they mailed it to us for free, refusing our offers to pay for postage in the first place when we inquired about it.

hooray for them! to that end, if you’re ever visiting christchurch, new zealand, you should definitely stay at warner’s historic hotel, right on cathedral square. not only in a great location, but the rooms were nice and the staff was great. and now we know the staff is extra great! (plus you can get cheap online rates!)

not that i’m telling you to go to new zealand in the first place.

Posted at January 7, 2005 4:34 PM