Trip to Wisconsin

Hell Yeah, the van to wisconsin left on thursday, november 18 and traveled many many kilometers that weekend. "The Crew" was Sammy, Zippy, Justin, and myself. We cruised all night through canada and parts of the midwest. Before Chicago we almost lost it when we hit "the double blinking arrow" Sammy and Justin who had been driving for hours began to hallucinate heavily and we found ourselves lost in some crappy suburban neighborhood. After a driver change and some public urination we were soon on the way and made it to Milwaukee friday morning. After some sleep at Fix's and a good mid-western breakfast we were ready to hit the Miller Brewery. But Dammit we missed the last tour! Luckily Sam talked them into letting us just hit up the hospitality bar. After our final leg we made it to Eau Claire and cought up with "The Team", Frenchy, Tora, Heather, and Kerry and coaches Newman and Deb were all glad to see us, so were the rest of the SLU alumns, Sammy and Hogan. After a bit the non-runners retired to the bar for some tall tall millers and general good times. There we met famed Pat Gaynor of Run-Insight.com fame. Check out his journal its pretty great. Despite threats of a trip to the local bars we made it to our room in time to get some sleep before the big day. We were up early looking for facepaint and postcards. The postcards were to send to Aaron Todd SLU alum, Bates Director of Sports Misinformation, and general girly man, because he failed to make the trip. If you want his address to send him a post card too i'll get it for you. Anyway we finally found face paint after like an hour and just managed to get into our union suits and gear in time to head off to the race. I almost destroyed Sammy's rental car on the way when the car in front of him decided to slam on their brakes going 50. We did make it though and got to ride on some school bus from the shuttle area to the race. The race was huge!! It was great racing back and forth and cheering for the Saints! Damn I've been typing for a while. Anyway we had a good night of room partying at the Holiday Inn. The trip back was sweet too. I'd tell you about it in detail but I'm tired and watching Undergrads and don't feel like it. Heres the quick version, cheese, fireworks, Sears Tower, deep dish pizza, lost in rochester, home. Pictures to come soon.