working out for Disney

[Sans Souci]

Happy Thanksgiving

Checking in with a bodyweight cardio workout. I'd like to go for a walk later, but my husband brought some upper respiratory nastiness in and I started feeling kind of off after my workout. My sinuses have been driving me crazy all week because the weather has been all over the place, too. Luckily, we just buy a precooked Thanksgiving dinner, so it takes an hour to get it all on the table. I did make some tasty cinnamon pecan scones this morning, too.

My brother, who lives in FL, invited me to visit him and meet my new niece. I started talking about potential dates and he sent me links to the Airbnb houses near him that his ex-gf from Illinois owns and told me I can stay there. Am I rude for thinking if you invite someone to visit you, it's an invite to stay at your house? He lives in a 3 br house. I just dropped the text exchange and changed the subject. If I have to pay for a hotel room, it's going to be quick visits at his house with the rest of the time doing my own thing. There will not be free babysitting so he and his GF can go out on a date or diaper changing. I would absolutely do that if I was staying with him, but not if I am paying for a hotel room in Naples.

 

[HouCuseChickie]

Happy Thanksgiving

Checking in with a bodyweight cardio workout. I'd like to go for a walk later, but my husband brought some upper respiratory nastiness in and I started feeling kind of off after my workout. My sinuses have been driving me crazy all week because the weather has been all over the place, too. Luckily, we just buy a precooked Thanksgiving dinner, so it takes an hour to get it all on the table. I did make some tasty cinnamon pecan scones this morning, too.

My brother, who lives in FL, invited me to visit him and meet my new niece. I started talking about potential dates and he sent me links to the Airbnb houses near him that his ex-gf from Illinois owns and told me I can stay there. Am I rude for thinking if you invite someone to visit you, it's an invite to stay at your house? He lives in a 3 br house. I just dropped the text exchange and changed the subject. If I have to pay for a hotel room, it's going to be quick visits at his house with the rest of the time doing my own thing. There will not be free babysitting so he and his GF can go out on a date or diaper changing. I would absolutely do that if I was staying with him, but not if I am paying for a hotel room in Naples.

I think it all depends on the dynamics of your relationship and whether an invitation would also be a place to stay. I would not be staying with my brother if invited to come visit but I know others who would have that with their siblings if presented with such a situation. I also like having my space so I prefer it when I'm not expected to stay. I do agree about not being roped in for babysitting and diaper changes.

 

[Songbird76]

Happy Thanksgiving

Checking in with a bodyweight cardio workout. I'd like to go for a walk later, but my husband brought some upper respiratory nastiness in and I started feeling kind of off after my workout. My sinuses have been driving me crazy all week because the weather has been all over the place, too. Luckily, we just buy a precooked Thanksgiving dinner, so it takes an hour to get it all on the table. I did make some tasty cinnamon pecan scones this morning, too.

My brother, who lives in FL, invited me to visit him and meet my new niece. I started talking about potential dates and he sent me links to the Airbnb houses near him that his ex-gf from Illinois owns and told me I can stay there. Am I rude for thinking if you invite someone to visit you, it's an invite to stay at your house? He lives in a 3 br house. I just dropped the text exchange and changed the subject. If I have to pay for a hotel room, it's going to be quick visits at his house with the rest of the time doing my own thing. There will not be free babysitting so he and his GF can go out on a date or diaper changing. I would absolutely do that if I was staying with him, but not if I am paying for a hotel room in Naples.

I would think in most cases, you would invite the person to stay in your house, but for me personally, I wouldn't WANT to stay with my brother if I could help it. We did that once and ended up getting a hotel after one night because they hadn't checked the air mattress to make sure it held air, hadn't bothered to get sheets or pillows or anything for it, and they had dogs that barked all night. They went out in the evening and weren't home, and when we went to set up the bed, we went to the closet he had pointed to for bedding, but they had had issues with flooding a couple of months before and they hadn't replaced the stuff that had been in that closet, so all the bedding, pillows, etc were damp, musty, and yellow....there was no way we could use any of it. So we had to make an emergency trip to Walmart to buy bedding and pillows for the air mattress, and halfway through the night, it got REALLY cold...they had had to rip out the carpet because of the flood damage, so there was no flooring, just the concrete subfloor, and the air mattress had leaked and we were sleeping on a cold concrete floor. First thing in the morning, we checked into a hotel. And then a few years ago, we just automatically checked into a hotel, but they had a new house, and their "guest bedroom" was packed full of all my brother's drag queen stuff for drag queen Bingo, and the bed was HORRIBLE. E and I had to stay there for one night because she had a work experience thing for school and she was going to work at their restaurant for the day and had to be up at something like 4am because their house was 30 minutes out of town, and the restaurant was 20 minutes out of town in another direction, so we had a drive to get there and they opened at 6. So we stayed at their house just the one night so E and I could go with them in the morning. I was glad it was just the one night. I ended up moving to the couch in the middle of the night because it was more comfortable than the bed. So I just know the accomodations he has to offer aren't really suitable. But I've stayed with other friends and family and been perfectly comfortable. But if what he's wanting is free babysitting and childcare, then I would expect that he would be offering free lodging. I guess it depends on how the visit is billed...how was the invitation worded?