Movin’ on up

Every once in a while Noel will get a client who lives on Maui. In early November, as a thank you, one of his clients gifted us with a weekend at the Ritz Carlton at Kapalua. The client’s wife’s aunt (or was it aunt’s cousin?) works on staff there. Sounded too good to be true to me, but it turned out fabulous. Our name was in the books, so it was all legit. And we loved it! Who knew you could get accustomed to five-star luxury so quickly?

On the first evening, the housekeeping staff arrives before dinner to turn down your sheets. Unfortunately, the kids had already done that for us. As Noel is declining the service at the door, Cub sprints around him and out into the hallway in just his diaper. Normally pretty cute on its own, but then he gets out of the diaper with one quick and dexterous pull of a tab and he’s really off and running. From inside, I hear the housekeeper shrieking and laughing. A party of six were leaving their rooms and heading to dinner, and Cub runs right for them. “Naked baby! Naked baby!” are now the laughs and chants. I finally get outside and down the hall to scoop him up, but our impact on the Ritz for the night was made!