A nice place to stay in Boston

Continuing on my theme of the two days my wife and I spent in Boston for a battery of tests my wife had to undergo at the Boston Medical Center, I want to show you where we stayed the night during that trip. As you can see in the picture, our hotel was called The Roundhouse Suites. Yes, it really is round. It is part of the Best Western franchise. It was originally built in the 1800's to store gas for use in Boston. I don't know when it was converted to a hotel but it wasn't recently. I didn't smell any gas.

The room was wonderful. It was really two rooms with a small sitting room with a couch, large screen TV and small stand with a refrigerator and microwave. The bedroom had a smaller TV and the bathroom was quite nice, too. It was kind of sad that we only got to stay there one night. And we were so exhausted from having to get up at 4 AM that morning to get there for the first round of tests that we didn't stay up long after the final test of the first day. We did go out to eat that evening and had a great meal but couldn't wait to get back to the room and go to bed. It was going to be another hard day the next day (for my wife at least) and it was going to be a great night for sleeping.

Until the fire alarm went off around 10:30 that night! We were both asleep. We heard a funny noise outside our room first. Then the alarm in our room went off. We both groaned, "Oh, no! It can't be." But it was. At first we thought that it must be a false alarm or a test of some sort. But it kept going and going. We dragged ourselves out of bed and grabbed our bags even though they tell you not to stop for anything. At least we did one right thing - we didn't try to take the elevator down the four floors to the street. We took the stairs. When we got to the lobby, everyone was standing around so we knew it must be a false alarm. We waited for a few minutes as the firemen double-checked and the manager told us that it was just a false alarm and we could go back to our rooms.

I have to admit that if it had been a real fire, we could have possibly been in a lot of trouble. Thankfully, we just got a warning. We'll do better next time. We were both exhausted the next day because, of course, we couldn't go right back to sleep after being startled like that. It never felt so good to get home to sleep in our own bed.