Midnight Invaders

Thought I might include some nice stories from the adventurous weekend. In the last night of our stay at the amazing hostel (it really was awesome), we no longer had the company of our previous roommate, a girl from Israel on her way to work in a vineyard for a few weeks. As the night wore on, I naturally was curious about who would be our new roommate. No one came. It was sort of sad because it certainly is an easy way to meet people, but before heading off to bed, we saw an envelope left on the front desk for the person who would be staying in our room. Sweet! We were going to have a roommate after all.

We fell off to sleep late that night without any company. At about one o'clock we heard someone rattling the doorknob. In come three loud Irish girls who turned on the lights without hesitation. As we jumped awake, the girls just say, "Oh... hey." No apology, no turning out of the lights. They proceeded to talk loudly about there only being one bed and what were they to do? Well, of course there's only one bed, you freaks. We paid for the other ones days ago. The conversation continued as Kelley and I ahemed and rolled about irritated. Eventually, they shut the door and went elsewhere, but only briefly. The next four hours were interrupted by two of the girls trying to fit in the top bunk of a bed together arguing about the possibilities and likelihood of falling out. Kelley, being much kinder in the wee hours of the morning than me, offered her lower bed so they could just shut up. Then, the one decided she didn't want to go to sleep so stayed up texting on her mobile for another couple hours. They got up, lights ablaze, well before 6 o'clock and packed up and left.

The great hostess of the hostel asked me if someone had been in our room the night before. I explained the annoying situation and she said that they had stolen the key, not paid, and stolen food out of the communal fridges. Sweet gals.