I'm on a roll - let's consider this Tuesday's posting...
So at the Westin there is "The Executive Club" or as we like to call it, the lounge. We have access to this lovely area during our stay and it's become a favourite go-to place. In the morning, they serve breakfast, during the day it's a quiet place to work and Paul likes to hide away in there to study and in the evenings between 6:30 and 8:30pm they serve appetizers; you can see why this has become a favourite place of ours. The staff are very friendly and are great with the kids. My visits to the lounge are limited where I'm at work all day but I typically retreat there around 8pm. At this point in the evening, the kids are asleep for the night and I settle in at my favourite table by the window to start my evening calls. I quickly grab a snack so that I have something to eat (on mute) during my calls and a cold can of diet coke. The thing I like the most about the lounge is that it is a favourite spot for my fellow Deloitte colleagues. You see, there is usually quite the contingent of Deloitte at the Westin in Hyderabad at any point from around the world. I don't know them by name by I'll pick them out around the hotel when I catch their Deloitte name tag as I see them walking by, or notice the Deloitte brand on their laptop bag (we brand anything and everything!) but in the lounge they are easy to pick out because they're generally sitting at a table with a very similar set-up as my own, headset on...chatting away to their colleagues back home - wherever home is for them. I pick up on Deloitte familiar words and for whatever reason it makes me smile; knowing that even though we don't know each other we have the common bond of Deloitte and Hyderabad. Wow...perhaps I've had a bit too much green kool-aid lately:)
It's nearly 6:30pm and on Thursday, that's means it's time to start my calls; the exception to my "always be home for supper and bedtime" rule. Looking forward to talking to everyone in Halifax...I'm missing our banter.
So at the Westin there is "The Executive Club" or as we like to call it, the lounge. We have access to this lovely area during our stay and it's become a favourite go-to place. In the morning, they serve breakfast, during the day it's a quiet place to work and Paul likes to hide away in there to study and in the evenings between 6:30 and 8:30pm they serve appetizers; you can see why this has become a favourite place of ours. The staff are very friendly and are great with the kids. My visits to the lounge are limited where I'm at work all day but I typically retreat there around 8pm. At this point in the evening, the kids are asleep for the night and I settle in at my favourite table by the window to start my evening calls. I quickly grab a snack so that I have something to eat (on mute) during my calls and a cold can of diet coke. The thing I like the most about the lounge is that it is a favourite spot for my fellow Deloitte colleagues. You see, there is usually quite the contingent of Deloitte at the Westin in Hyderabad at any point from around the world. I don't know them by name by I'll pick them out around the hotel when I catch their Deloitte name tag as I see them walking by, or notice the Deloitte brand on their laptop bag (we brand anything and everything!) but in the lounge they are easy to pick out because they're generally sitting at a table with a very similar set-up as my own, headset on...chatting away to their colleagues back home - wherever home is for them. I pick up on Deloitte familiar words and for whatever reason it makes me smile; knowing that even though we don't know each other we have the common bond of Deloitte and Hyderabad. Wow...perhaps I've had a bit too much green kool-aid lately:)
It's nearly 6:30pm and on Thursday, that's means it's time to start my calls; the exception to my "always be home for supper and bedtime" rule. Looking forward to talking to everyone in Halifax...I'm missing our banter.
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