Hot tub Experience

Last week I had the most hilarious experience cleaning the hot tub. On tuesday night, I was talking to Scott on the phone. He had told me that he was going to come home on his days off and he had asked me if I would be willing to clean out the hot tub before he got home so that he may enjoy it when he got here. RELUCTANTLY, and I mean RELUCTANTLY I agreed to do it.
The next day I had a client in the morning and then I went for lunch with Bobbi. I got back at 1:00ish because I had another client coming at 1:30. So I thought that I could at least get it started before she came and it would drain while I was busy working. It will all work out to plan right? NOOOTTTT!!!!
So I got both my hoses attatched so that it would go out to the road. With them together I was going to attatch it to the hot tub. But I decided to open up the door first and check inside as to where I had to open up the drain. So I got the electric drill and unscrewed the screws, and went to pull the door off.
Now if you have never looking underneath a hot tub,,it is full of spray-in insulation all around the tub and the pumping system. Ours is about 3-4 inches thick. This was the start of my dilemma. We have a landing just in front of the hot tub that is butted up to the tub. Maybe 2-3 inches front being against the wood on the outside. So when I went to pull the door away, I could only move it about 3inches. Not enough to actually remove the door. I can't move the landing because it's frozen to the ground. Uh Ohh!
I tried every angle, but could not remove the stupid door. I even crawled under this landing to see if I could angle my arm to reach the stupid handle to open the valve. Nope! Now I was stuck in a pickle. Scott really wanted me to deal with this hot tub. I didn't. But my love for my husband was greater. (Better remember this dear.) So now I had to problem solve. What could I do????? ......I had an idea! But will it work? I could syphon the water out? That would probably work.
So I stuck the house in the water. Made sure I had enough so that it wouldn't come out. went to the end of the hose. Looked to see if anyone was watching. Nope! So I started to suck on the end of the hose. Yuck!!!!! It was full of old water that has been in the hose all winter. More Yuck! The hose is full of ice from the frozen water. Spit and suck. Spit and suck. This is disgusting. Scott better love me alot. Again look to see if anyone was watching. Nobody. Set the hose down and watch the water stream out. IT'S Working. The water was running out as well as a lot more ice too. Glad that all didn't go in my mouth.
By this time my client was late and looked like a no show. So I waked away from the hose to let gravity do it's thing. So I went inside and read my book. 4 hours later the hot tub was finally drained. With some bucket dumping on my part. Washed it all down and put all the hosing back and closed up the door to the tub. I had to fill it back up. So in goes the hose again.
You know after waiting all afternoon to empty the tub,,,it only took and hour to fill it up. Argh! But it was done. Checked all the chemicals. Scott should be happy. At least he better be. I'm not doing that again. It will always be Scotts job for as long as we have the tub. Life is full of dity jobs.