Inn Time

A weekend in the Hamptons and a weekend in the Hampton Inn mean completely separate things, but to Olivia, getting to spend four nights in the local hotel – we’ve been temporarily displaced from our home because of issues related to the water in our basement – meets her definition of luxury: it has a heated pool, bountiful breakfast, and TV with several cartoon networks. My mom has graciously offered to put us up here while our basement carpet is getting the chemical and heat treatments to fend off mold and other enemies of the estate.

We, too, are trying to find the silver lining in all of this. For four days, we’ll have cable and Internet access, both of which have not yet been installed at the damp digs. And so when we start to feel sorry for ourselves, we can distract ourselves with HBO original programming and Facebook.