Random Acts of Kindness

July 13th:

So I spent this weekend with a couple girlfriends on the coast and we stayed Saturday night at Costanoa, a nice lodge/campsite. We stayed in two of their tents/bungalows which meant we could have a little campfire outside, but that comes into play in a bit. So, the lodge has a hot tub that is available to only those staying in the lodge, but we didn't know that, so when we went to ask at the front desk when the tub closed they asked us if we were staying in the lodge, which we said we were not, and they informed us that it wasn't available to us. Dejected, we turned to my mom for a new idea of something to do at 10pm, but the gentleman at the front desk got our attention and slipped us a key saying that he'd let us in, because he had already lit the fire in the lobby for my mom and he might as well let her enjoy it! :D So he let us in the hot tub and my mom enjoyed her personal fire! Whoot!

About two hours later, when we were all hot-tubbed out and ready to build our own little campfire using purchased wood we found that apparently we SUCK at building a campfire! Or... the wood was wet. The other girls say the wood was "wet", but I think we just didn't follow the fire-starter's directions and failed. Either way, around midnight we went back to the lobby to purchase a duraflame log and the same guy was working! When I asked how much a log would be, his associate was like: "I don't think we sell those..." and our guy smiled, set one on the counter, and said, "We don't sell them". My friend A was confused, but L and R quickly caught on, realizing that he was giving us a free log! WHAT A SWEETHEART! We had actually already written him a thank you note for allowing us to use the hot tub, so we traded that for the log and went on our merry way. He seemed very happy to get the thank you note, it was cute.

We ended up not needing the log to get the fire going, as R blew on the embers and SOMEHOW built a fire out of it where L, A, and my mother had totally failed. We did add in the duraflame log later to keep it blazing, but it wasn't necessary.

I guess the point of this post is me being thankful for this one guy who made our stay at Costanoa SO much more enjoyable and fun. I wish everyone was so kind!

Keep it classy folks.