Gross

After reading in the paper about a hotel in a sketchy part of DC that had to be shut down after complaints from customers who contracted scabies, I knew I had to see if there were reviews posted on TripAdvisor...bingo! (There is a stretch of hotels/motels in the vicinity of this particular hotel, and we've often commented that we feel sorry for the people who probably read that they were only a mile or two from the Capitol and so figured it was a good location.) Having skimmed some of the reviews--and they're well worth a read--I feel especially sorry for the folks from other countries who have ended up staying there and getting a GREAT view of life in the U.S. of A. Perhaps the most frightening thing is that four hotels on TripAdvisor are rated even lower...

(And on the subject of gross things in the paper, there was also a story today about these strange brown mutant crickets that infest basements here...the article makes it sound like they're more prevalent this year because of drought, but we've had them in our basement as long as we've lived here.)