Saturday

My suitcase was pretty full for a 3 day trip, I wanted options since I had no idea exactly how cold it would be. I also packed my XBox for extra entertainment. My flight was very early, 6 am take off. That meant I rolled out of bed at 4am. Keep that in mind later. I had to wake up poor Ali to drop me off at the airport. We left the house a little late so I hauled ass to get there. I was able to do the entire trip in about 35 minutes, outstanding time.

As I was heading towards my gate I heard someone say my name, I looked and here a co-worker friend of mine was on the same flight on her way to Vegas. That was cool, so I talked to her a bit waiting for our flight to board. My flight out was to Charolette and then Milwaukee. The flights were uneventful, I had bulkhead seating the entire way through so that helped minimize the normal discomfort I get with being cramped during flights. After picking up my bag I noticed it had the blue TSA tag on it meaning they rifled through my bag. I suppose the Xbox looked like a bomb.

When we landed in Milwaukee I got my first blast of arctic air. It was in the 20’s and my winter coat was still wrapped up in my carry on bag. I was just wearing my jeans and a t-shirt. I met Troy in the terminal and headed outside to get the car, I dug out the coat quickly as my macho idea of parading around with no coat soon become blatantly foolish. The drive to our hotel took about an hour and a half. We both were very hungry so we stopped at some italian version of Bosten Market. We had some great lasagna stuff that stayed in our guts like a rock for most of the day afterward. Lot of cheese.

Our hotel was a Residence Inn. A cool place with an indoor pool, hot tub , a fridge a microwave in the room and supposedly 2 beds. It turned out MY bed was the pull out sofa bed. No big deal, I’ll survive. We decided to go do a quick drive around to see what was in the area, we found a bar that was close so we decided to hit that a bit later. I hooked up the XBOX and wooped up on Troy a couple games. Not much of a challenge.

We hit the bar. A nice little place. I drank a decent amount, we had a good time, talked to a lot of people and enjoyed our first night in town. It was getting late so we headed home. A girl we met at the bar told us about a good sports bar that would be great for watching the Sunday football action. Cool. We probably didn’t get to bed till 1 am local time (2am our time) Day one was over, I was tired, smelled like smoke but thoroughly enjoyed my time in Wisconsin so far. 4am to 2am, a 22 hour day.