So another time my wife and I took our girls up to ski in Summit County for the weekend. My wife got a really cheap room at the crummy La Quinta right off the Silverthorne exit, because they had an indoor pool and hot tub for the kids to swim in after skiing. The 6-yr-old yakked in the car on the drive up, gross but whatever, kids get carsick. We skied, hung out with friends, ate empanadas at the little place in Dillon, swam, had a great night. Right about bedtime the 2-yr-old threw up in the corner, oh man, maybe she was overtired? LAs I'm cleaning that up I see the 8-yr-old go pale and sprint to the bathroom, where she threw up...uh-oh, my wife says "shoot, I heard there was a GI virus going around the Kindergarten this week." Suddenly MY stomach is starting to feel strange, oh SH*T, and I'm literally heaving the 8-yr-old out of the way so I can puke too.
What followed was one of the worst nights of my life, three of us on a constant rotation through the bathroom, coming out both ends, the worst I've ever been sick. My wife made at least two trips to the front desk to get more towels and trash bags, then they said they "ran out" of fresh towels. The 2-yr-old just gave up, she'd just throw up in whatever direction she was facing, up, down, sideways, on the night stand, didn't matter, I felt so bad for her. I don't know how my wife survived it, she never even got sick. The 6-yr-old slept soundly in the corner the entire time of course. The ordeal lasted til morning, it was all we could do to get the kids and bags back in the car and limp home like a defeated army. The room was a nightmare, we had absolutely defiled the place, vomit EVERYWHERE, and it stunk like something died in there. I wish I could've seen the cleaning crews' faces when they showed up. Honestly I'm surprised they didn't just burn down the whole hotel to get rid of the mess. I'll never stay there again, and my stomach gets a little twitchy every time I drive by, I still think they should burn it down, it was the worst hotel I've ever stayed at in my life.
Apologies to any of you who stayed in that place after us...