Waterloo/Cedar Falls/Cedar Rapids, Iowa

January 10th – 12th

College Wrestling – Tape Delayed for ESPNU

Flew into Cedar Rapids (I think) and then drove to Waterloo. For some reason, I was confused all weekend as to where I was. I think it was because our hotels kept changing during the week and I also originally thought our event was at Iowa, but it actually was at Northern Iowa.

Anyway, it was insanely cold where ever I was.

On Sunday morning, the front desk clerk gave me directions to the UNIDome. She said to get off at the “Hudson exit and the dome will be a couple miles down on your left.” So that’s what I did.

However, the road was a dead end. Hmm… I know I didn’t pass a huge dome!

So as I was turning around, I saw “University Ave.” – well I knew that had to lead to a college campus I assumed it would be the one I needed.

Eventually, it was. I eventually came to “Hudson Street” – and what do ya know, the UNIDome was on it, on my left.

Apparently the hotel clerk left out one minor detail…. There is an exit for Hudson (a town) and then an exit for Hudson Street. (I needed the street, not the town)

I was about 40 minutes late to work, but it was okay. It took a couple hours for the truck to warm up enough to turn on the gear.

On Sunday night, I was able to hang out at the bar with a few of my long time freelance friends. It was a lot of fun to catch up with them!

I only had about 4 hours of sleep on Sunday night and wasn’t feeling all that happy about the early flight when I woke up on Monday morning.

The night before, a co-worker and I had decided to sit together on our flight from Iowa to Cincinnati. (It’s better to be squished in together with someone you know)

Unfortunately, the seat next to me was taken and he had the one across the isle. He went ahead and sat next to me and when the guy came up and said, “I think you are in my seat”, Mike said, “I’m on the one across the isle, do you mind switching? I met this girl at the bar last night.”

I laughed so hard and said, “that doesn’t really bode well for you considering I haven’t even brushed my hair yet today.” (Sadly, it was the truth)

When arriving at the gate for the flight to Columbus, I ran into a client. He did a double take when I said hi – he obviously didn’t recognize me wearing sweats and unkempt hair.
Glamorous life I tell ya!

Sorry, no photos this weekend. I honestly forgot.