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pwhodges:
The Express version is Holiday Inn's "upper economy" offering, originally with reduced facilities (e.g. no room service, pool, fitness centre).  They now generally have most of these facilities, but are placed in less central or smart areas.

cesium133:
IICIH is referring to an ad campaign for Holiday Inn Express that involved people appearing really smart, and when asked how they became so smart, they answer “I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.”

LeeC:
I've noticed an interesting dynamic between my two little girls (ages 2 and 3). The 3 year old (M) loves being a princess and will often be a princess in distress when daddy is being a monster/dinosaur/bad-guy chasing them. My youngest (C) seems to want to be the knight that fights off the dinosaur/monster/bad-guy and will often run from the other side of the house if she hears M cry for help. C will pretend to fight me and beat me up to save her sister. Another example is on the playground outside. I may grab M's leg when they're in the tower and make octopus noises (from Bluey) and C will say "I save you" and she'll try to pry my hand off the leg. Its incredibly cute. She also seems to be into swords. I played a French Hussar video on youtube out of boredom (I was on a Napoleonic War kick and it was in the recommended videos) and C came over from the other room and saw the Hussar pictures, swords raised high while on horseback, and she thrust a fist to the sky to imitate them and dance along.
https://i.imgur.com/0dgdVnf.mp4
What is a good age to get a kid to start fencing? I kid, but I am tempted to get her like a foam sword so she can play knight and princess with her older sister.

hedgie:
You probably want to start them only, since the consequences of getting caught are much higher the older one gets, and people generally make mistakes as they learn.

Morituri:
So, wait... at this age, your daughter is already a shameless hussar?

Congratulations!  (And never ever tell her why that was funny).

Foam sword - probably a good idea.  Fencing lessons - Probably not before third grade at the earliest.

But she's a kid.  By Third Grade she'll be on Dinosaurs, collecting bugs, fairy tales, and some kid-catering singer who hasn't even started to get popular yet.  After going through sixteen other things on the way. 

Kids are little maniacs, and I mean that in the absolute best possible way.  It is entirely normal for kids to learn by constantly devoting effort to a constantly shifting set of manias. They do deep-dive learning on whatever the subject of their most recent obsession, and then after a while the obsession changes and she goes from, I dunno, a mania for dance lessons to a mania for track and field events.

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