Charlotte - Dual Residence Inn and Fairfield --- Another One for the Record Books

What a great time in Charlotte with Tricia and Hope, and what a crazy hotel!  A Residence Inn and Fairfield Dual hotel, connected by a hallway!  The picture shows the Residence Inn half painted red and the Fairfield side painted blue, such a cool hotel and an even cooler staff!  Tricia did FOSSE training, Hope ended up doing mainly housekeeping as they needed some assistance in that area and I had the pleasure of hanging out with some pretty cool ladies in the kitchen all week.  The kitchen was located in the middle of the building a long hallway to transport the food to both sides, but the kitchen was huge and full of lots of learning and lots of laughs, music and dancing during our training week!  Also we got a visit from Tom, the VP of our department, it was so nice to see him and get to spend some time with him at dinner and around the hotel. 

This panorama shot shows the hotel from the outside, such a cool building when you drive up.  Then you walk in and some of the best people I have seen in awhile are manning the front desk, providing breakfast and working in housekeeping!

 



Puerto Rico!!!!  This lovely lady spent all week in the kitchen with me learning how to balance cooking breakfast for both sides at the same time in the morning!  Which means on scrambled egg day we have to have a pan for both the Fairfield and Residence Inn side, so one spatula in each hand!!  She was also from Puerto Rico so that is what I kept calling her and we talked about my vacation there the month before, her smile each morning made it such a blessing to come to work.

OMG...then there was this amazing lady!  Patsy AKA "Miss P", she made my day each and every morning and even made me shed a tear on the way out the door the morning that I left the property.  She is such a great soul, such a hard worker and the light in a crazy day, she reminded me so much of my Mom, I just wanted to take her home with me.  When I'm in Charlotte I have promised her that I will come and visit her!

We were so excited to be in this giant elevator with so much room for activities!  Not sure why the local Publix had such a huge elevator from their parking garage, however it made me laugh every time!

The night that Tom came for dinner we went downtown Charlotte to our large Marriott property, I laughed at their coffee condiment station slogan that says "Pimp My Brew!!!!"

This is their coffee area where they often have live music at the downtown Charlotte Marriott, it was a really cool space that I would totally hang out in!

Of course I had to take time to take a picture with one of my favorite people as we took a tour of the downtown Marriott, we tried to find our Christmas spirit in front of the HUGE tree in the lobby!

 



The night we went to the Downtown Marriot we had dinner there (I might have called ahead to let them know we were bringing Tom with us and they gave us the best table in the house!) it was great!  We sat at the end of the counter right next to the kitchen, we had a front row seat to all the action.  The food was amazing, the F&B Director and the managers kept coming by to check on us and see how everything was going with our dinner.  We had the pleasure of a couple of our old team members join us, two members of the IT department since we were at a dual hotel and of course Tom.  Such a great night and time spent with some great co-workers!