White Coral and Relatives

Driving in the middle of nowhere. Ended up at an ocean. Two hotels near it. One extravagant looking one that is incredibly tall and unfriendly looking; another that is a single floor tiny guest house. I go to the tiny guest house and there is a front desk clerk who is a woman that is incredibly bitchy. I tell her I want room "24" but only for three nights. Then, to complicate things, I tell her that I don't want the room until the next night, because I'm waiting on my significant other. I guess I'll sleep in the car until he gets here.

So she gets mad and says that she won't know until I decide to actually check in and that they don't do reservations. Her assistant, a nice guy whispers to me that "dont worry, the guy in room 24 is checking out tomorrow anyway." She gets mad at him, and I walk out, waving goodbye.

I stand in between the two hotels, looking at the ocean. I decide to walk over the other tall grandiose hotel and ask the clerk if I can see some pictures of the rooms. He shows me a book of pictures, and I flip through them. Some of them have pictures of their huge ballroom. Their ballroom is covered in coral reef that is blue and lit up with a black light. In the middle of the floor of the ballroom is a huge white coral statue of Poseidon, holding a mortal woman. I'm looking at these pictures and I decide to stay in one of their rooms for the night, while waiting for my friend.

So they check me into a tiny room that looks like a ships cabin on the top floor of this huge building. Huge bed, tiny windows that overlook the ocean. Its incredibly dark and overcast. I'm walking around the room, checking it out. I look at the windows and see that the waves outside have gotten so high, that they are lapping against the windows. (Keep in mind, this room is at least 50 floors up.) I'm all excited and happy to be seeing the hotel covered in ocean waves. I call my friend and am crying, going "I wish you were here to see this beauty with me."

The next morning I check into the guest house that I originally wanted in the first place. The woman is nice this time. My friend calls and tell me that he can't make it, and I'm on my own. For some reason, I'm not surprised or bothered by this. I check in, and its a 70's looking hotel room with huge windows and glass walls that separate the rooms from the kitchen , the bathroom, etc. Suddenly, my relatives show up.

Its my aunt, my cousin Nathan, my cousin Dave and my cousin Tim. They decide to stay there with me. Everything is going fine, and suddenly my cousin Nathan starts acting like a brat and begins to throw temper tantrums on the floor, and is making everyone's life hell there. So I go outside to the night clerk, a nice young girl who tells me that I can put in him in a separate room they have there in the building. I drag him over there, and he's fighting me the entire time. I tell him to go to sleep (keep in mind, he's in his 20's while I'm doing this, a full grown person). He yells at me and says he wants to be part of things, etc. I go back into my area and everyone starts to see Nathan trying to open a door with this hands that is connected to our room. I go back to him, and decide to bring him back to the playroom that is separating the hotel room from his room - and everything is walled in glass. The playroom floor is covered in sand. Like an indoor beach.

I take him into this room, and I pass the band R.E.M. who is sitting there in this room on the floor. I tell them to keep it down while I'm doing this. Michael Stipes looks at his band and says "everyone got that?"and they nod.

I sit with Nathan, pull out a blanket and two play dolls. I go under the blanket with him and start acting out a story between these two dolls. The first doll is running around, with a deep voice, looking for underwater creative adventures. The second doll has a high voice, chasing after the first doll. The first doll finds some underwater plants with sparkling blue and silver strings, and starts pulling them out and swinging underwater with them. The second doll is telling the first doll to stop messing around. Meanwhile, Nathan is watching this and enjoying himself. My cousin David is smirking and being sarcastic, my cousin Tim is laughing and being upbeat and positive. The band and the relatives are watching from behind the glass, laughing.