{"id":1143,"date":"2018-08-31T22:40:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T02:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2018-08-31T23:06:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T03:06:33","slug":"in-search-of-shabby-chic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"In Search Of Shabby Chic"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple weeks ago, my Beautiful Girlfriend (you know, the one who let me marry her 45 years ago) asked me, \u201cwhat do you want for our anniversary?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing,\u201d I replied. Well OK, I pretty much jiggled my eyebrows at her right after that, and she knew exactly what that meant. \u201cYou want that all the time,\u201d she snorted. Yeah, I probably do. Hey, what man wouldn’t <\/i><\/strong>want to \u201ctango\u201d when you’re married to the Most Beautiful Woman In The Universe? Anyway, I reiterated that I really didn’t want for anything; so we picked out a ring for her and left it at that.<\/p>\n

For a while…<\/p>\n

Then I thought, well yes I think I do <\/i><\/strong>want something… a little getaway perhaps. Labor Day weekend is coming up, and and I had already put in for Friday as a vacation day. I thought it would be rather nice to spend a night at some local motel on the Lake Michigan shore. As luck would have it, Google helped me find just such a place. It’s called the Lakeshore Motel in Manistee, and the only thing between your room and Lake Michigan is sand. Considering the location, I was amazed at the price of a mere $110 for a night.<\/p>\n

All the online reviews were stellar… very clean, very nice people, very comfortable. And we found out for ourselves that all that was indeed the case. One review cautioned that if you’re looking for a 5 star motel, this is not it. And we found out for ourselves that this was indeed the case. And yes I know I just wrote the very same sentence twice.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure the motel was built around the time we were… meaning it’s gotta date back to at least 1960. And although it was very clean and comfortable, I’m not sure anything has changed much since that time. I was pointing out some of the more interesting \u201cfeatures\u201d of the room to my Lovely Bride; and she says, \u201cyes, this is called ‘shabby chic,’ it’s really popular these days.\u201d \u201cDunno,\u201d I retorted, \u201cI’m thinking this might be just plain shabby.\u201d So of course I had to go to Google and search for this \u201cshabby chic,\u201d and yes, my Beautiful Girlfriend was right, it’s a thing!! But I mean hey, check out this lamp (click on the picture for a better view)…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Weird…<\/p>\n

Anyway, we really did love the location. And we really did have a comfortable, clean bed; and a cozy \u201cshabby chic (?),\u201d very clean room. And some interesting little melmac cups for coffee in the morning.<\/p>\n

Who knows? We might just do it again!!<\/p>\n

After all, it was nothing<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 “The Cobweb Hotel”…<\/p>\n