The actual reunion dinner was at a place called the Madonna Inn, a strange castle like place on the edge of San Luis Obispo. Now for those of you who have either heard of this place a little or for those of you who had never been there before, it’s a strange place. And by strange I mean bizarre. The coloration is at best a bright pink, at worse a dull pink. It’s main outside areas are fashioned from the rocks from the hill behind it, which goes by the original name of “Madonna Mountain”. Catchy name huh? Inside you are bombarded by the color pink, as it was Mrs. Madonna’s favorite color and her hubby had always loved her exquisitely. They have fairly expensive but not too shabby food, and their real claim to fame is their German chocolate cake. It literally has huge chunks of chocolate shaved and placed on the top along with the rich chocolate cake and the rich chocolate filling. All in all a decadents wet dream. But then there’s the rooms.
Now each of the rooms are theme based. Some are slightly mundane like a car room, little cars on the wallpaper and car like seats and such. One was called “time of your life” which involved purple carpet along with purple walls and semi-cheap masks hung on the walls. But then you get other crazy rooms. Like the caveman room, where you have a shower that’s a waterfall onto your head, along with an actual cave that’s been fashioned into a plush room with chunks of rock coming out of the walls, all from the mountain of course. All in all and interesting, but slightly bizarre place. And it was invaded by the class of 88.
