It’s bright and early here in Racine, WI. After somewhat of a hectic day yesterday, we finally made it into town last night around 7 pm or so. My original plan was to leave around 11 am and to try and miss any out of town rush hour traffic. My girlfriend had a last minute meeting that lasted until 11:30, so that changed to leaving at noon. Ok… no big deal, but as the morning went on she had another issue with some water in her basement that she wanted to look at quick. We stopped by there and didn’t get on the road until just before 2 pm. Ugh. Three hours later than I wanted to be on the road, but better late than never.

The drive here was long! Well, long for me anyway. I don’t really sit very well in a far for more than three hours and it took us over five to get here. We hauled ass across Wisconsin and arrived in Racine to have the front desk at the hotel tell me that I didn’t have reservations for two nights, but just for one night. Of course, it was the night before the race that I didn’t have a reservation for. I was absolutely livid! I did change my reservations late last week from a Saturday to Monday stay to a Friday to Sunday stay, but I received confirmation back that everything was ok. Now, they were telling me that they didn’t have any availability, that the waiting list was 5-6 people deep, and that the closest hotel away was a good 15 minutes by car. Unacceptable. I was so mad I was almost speechless, but luckily my girlfriend is pretty well versed in the art of bitching so she started the bombardment of the poor front desk people. “No no no… this is RADISSON’S fault. RADISSON is going to fix this problem.” And I did feel kind of sorry for the two girls behind the desk. It wasn’t their fault, but it was their company’s fault. But none the less, I proceeded to give them an earful from beside my bitching girlfriend (I never knew all that bitching could come in so handy ;) ). After some squirming, it was decided that they were going to give us a room for two nights and they’d work out how they were going to fix their overbooking later. Near disaster avoided.

Not much else to report. Today will just be spent checking into the race and checking out the race expo and what not. We’ll probably go see a movie or something today. There’s a small possibility that some of my girlfriend’s family might come into town for a visit, but I kind of doubt that since they didn’t call us back yesterday. Not that I blame them - Racine doesn’t seem to be the most exciting place on the planet. Whatever we end up doing, it’s nice to not be on the road and to get away for the weekend without anything to do (today) but relax.