So, I've spent this entire past weekend at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells with my significant other half. Mind you, she's actually the one here on business and has been in class for the last 2 days, so I've had a lot of time to, well, just think.

I have a few observations from my time spent mulling around here for the past 2 days.
* Waterparks are not the place for a couple looking for a relaxing vacation. If we had kids, the story would be a different one.
* On the subject of 'names of things' I have to wonder, as a marketer, what the hell some companies were thinking when they named some of their products
*** They call the soap in our hotel room 'deodorant soap', yet it reeks of something I cannot describe. I thought soap was supposed to move odor? Now I smell like something else...
*** The toilet paper dispenser says 'Kimberly Clark - Professional'. Ok, seriously, I can see professional grade in tools, surgical equipment, and even heavy duty stapelers. However, I don't see the correlation between a toilet paper dispenser and a professional, well, professional whatever...
* Wireless connectivity in many places has a long way to go. The connection here in the hotel exists, but it's a piece of shit. I'd had to ask for new access codes because of the way it ties your user session to the computer you're on to the code the hotel gives you. Someone, please design a better way to do this.
* Hotels, and even restaurants, that design for the 'customer experience' and successfully pull it off are godsends. Like Damons of Outback Steakhouse, where they ask "are you familiar with Outback?", and if you answer "no", they explain how they're unique and how that's a good thing for you. Love it.

The name of the Water Park is the Kalahari Resort?!?
The Kalahari is the oldest desert on the planet?!
One of the dryest places on earth?!