octipus rex 7

(We find the Hotel Nicholas)

The building in which Herbert, Andre-Richard, John and I had apartments was condemned and was going to be demolished. It was a lovely building, but it needed extensive repairs. There were plans for a parking complex. The only reasons the contractors gave were that it was an old building and that the repairs would be costly. I did some research and found out that the repairs would have cost less than demolishing the building and building the parking complex. I also found out that the contractors had been hired by the merchants in the area, The building was only one hundred years old, and they wanted to tear it down so that they could get more business.I believe in progress, but we should keep traces of our past as a foundation on which to build the future. Now I shall get off of my soapbox and continue telling how we found the Hotel Nicholas.
We were looking for a place in which to live when Herbert  saw an advertisement in the classified ads in which the management of the Hotel Nicholas said that they were desperately looking for tenants for the thirteenth floor of their hotel. The thing that attracted us was that the rent was low.
Andre-Richard called the number in the ad and made an appointment for the next day to see the hotel.
When we arrived at the manager's office he kept mentioning how low the rent was and that the hotel was in a good location, close to underground and bus stops. He then let us walk around the thirteenth floor at out own leisure.
We fell in love with it at first sight. It was nothing like we had expected, thank goodness. We were all tired of hotels and apartment buildings that all looked alike on the inside. The first thing that one sees upon entering through the door from the stairwell is a long corridor with trees at the end. Immediately to the right there is a simple room with one window which John said he wanted. Beside John's room is a large ballroom complete with chandeliers, and beside it what we thought was a purposeless corridor. Continuing down the hall one finds a room which temporarily remained empty, a swamp and an ice rink. On the left of the hall are a desert with a brook running through it, a room decorated in a rather cubistic fashion (Herbert wanted this room.) with catnip growing in the hall and an iceberg. At the end of the hall there is a forest with a lake. In the forest are a purple tree house trimmed in red in which Andre-Richard wanted to live and a one-room medieval castle modeled after the Vhateau d'Usse, (I wanted to live there.)
We signed the lease and made plans to move in the following week.
Joy Q.