I am a complete and total weenie

[diggitydot]

I think we all have fears that could seem weird to someone else. I associate cemeteries with fond memories (my grandparents owned one when I was little and I liked the quiet and floved rollerskating in the mausoleum), but cicadas scare the fuck out of me. Talk about irrational...

[SoonerTexan]

I'll trade you the cicada phobia!

I associate cemeteries with fond memories

Our neighborhood was across the street from one. Actually, it was a nice, well-kept pretty one with flowers instead of headstones. Still scared the crap out of me. I used to have a recurring nightmare that my parents bought a house on top of one.

[diggitydot]

True story:

During open house my Kindergarten year, mom kept noticing people going up to a kid's drawing, reading the caption, and walking away crying. She couldn't figure WTH was going on until she walked up to it herself. She discovered a lovely rendering of a picnic with green hills, blue skies, smiling sun, colorful flower -- and head stones. The caption: "Having Lunch With Grandma and Grandpa by Wendy A."

Mom stood there all night explaining to anyone who'd listen that grandma and grandpa were still alive and OWNED the cemetery. My poor mom. And Kindergarten teacher. Same woman had to figure out how to deal with me telling my classmates that my mom was a zookeeper. She was a nurse, but always talked about how work was a zoo...

[HouseofWool]

Diggity - I can totally relate!

When I was a kid, my folks ran a short-term placement foster home for the county. There were typically 8 teen-aged boys living there at any given time. My family portraits often showed all of them in addition to my biological family. Mom had some pretty interesting conversations with the teacher.

[ladymoreta]

I think I would be freaked out, too! The thing is, I've actually stayed there, but I didn't know anything about the reported hauntings. The only bad thing that happened was DH got sick overnight from dinner, so I missed out on what was supposed to be my first full night of sleep since DS was born! I hope you're able to sleep, but I don't know if I would be able to, either, knowing some people have experienced weird things there. We have a guest bedroom (that we still haven't gotten around to making into DD's bedroom...) if you decide not to stay at the hotel!

[ladymoreta]

I also wanted to add that the hotel is gorgeous! We loved our room, and the roomservice breakfast was fantastic! (Splurging on roomservice is one of my favorite things about staying in hotels...)

[SoonerTexan]

I also wanted to add that the hotel is gorgeous!

I know! I wish I didn't know anything about it. Damn Google. Ignorance is bliss, but the mind can do funky things! Actually, when we were all really young we stayed in a famous hotel in San Antonio that I found out years later is supposedly haunted. I'm glad I didn't know anything about it then because I would have been a wreck at 10 years old.

[DCJenn]

Everything in San Antonio is haunted. Someone keeps turning on my ceiling fan and ceiling lights. (and TV) and it's obviously people who don't have to pay the electric bill. Maybe they were from a time when there wasn't TV but come on- go turn on someone else's electronics.

J

[Pollyanna]

If you feel this uncomfortable then find another hotel. In the future make plans for YOUR family (you,dh, and baby) then tell extended family members what YOUR plans are and that they are welcome to come. I know this is hard when you are first married and come from a close family, I get it, but you will be happy you created this separation.

[peggyfromwastate]

Ita pollyana. We have had too many of our outings completely taken over by family-- once my family changed the date of the outing (baseball game) and dh couldn't go! It was so stupid. They said " oh I'm so sorry mac can't be there - but we will have fun anyway!". Dh and I just said... Ummm never again. We book first and invite second.

[MrsPotts]

I'm with you - creepy!! The thing with me and ghosts thought is that I'm completely fascinated with them, but when I want to go "hunt for them" or stay in a haunted hotel I just chicken out! haha Drives DH crazy because he isn't a scaredy cat like me lol But I do want to someday stay at a haunted B&B or hotel if I get the courage too! Maybe try to think of it as an experience that once you can survive you can tell your baby about later!?

[scarlett09]

If you feel this uncomfortable then find another hotel. In the future make plans for YOUR family (you,dh, and baby) then tell extended family members what YOUR plans are and that they are welcome to come. I know this is hard when you are first married and come from a close family, I get it, but you will be happy you created this separation.

This.

I understand your fear, although I don't share it, and I wouldn't stay there if I were you. It will be a long day and you should be staying overnight in a place you feel comfortable in.

And the university comped your parents and brother a room and 3 tickets to the game as part of an "official visit"? Is he an athlete? Otherwise, that is unusual (and I thought that it wasn't allowed for prospective non-student athletes).

[SoonerTexan]

They do it for National Merit. No idea how it works regarding rules and stuff. I just know they are in my brothers name and he is going.

[scarlett09]

They do it for National Merit. No idea how it works regarding rules and stuff. I just know they are in my brothers name and he is going.

That is pretty awesome. As far as I know, they don't really make a big deal about National Merit around here. Just learned something new.

[ladymoreta]

Oh yeah, NMs are almost royalty there! Great choice if your kids qualify! (Even out of state.)