"Christmas Wrapping" by Waitresses.
We're in Green Bay, Wisconsin right now for our game against none other than the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. We arrived here after a long day of traveling yesterday. After a 90-minute flight from Buffalo to Chicago, a two-and-a-half hour layover in the Chicago airport - where the workers sang Christmas songs over the intercom - and a 25-minute teeter totter of a flight, we finally arrived in Green Bay. But we gained an hour in Central Time, so a seven hour travel day was really only six.
Oh, and for those of you who don't plan on making a trip to Green Bay in your lifetime: it's just like they say it is on TV. It's cold, snowy and Packer-crazy. You can see Lambeau Field from our hotel. We actually ate dinner inside the stadium last night. And yes, I had cheese...I mean that's what they do in Wisconsin, right?
--Historic Lambeau Field
Brett Favre's restaurant is right around the corner from our hotel, as is UW-GB's arena, which they share with a semi-pro hockey team. I mention the hockey team because the basketball court, like in many arenas, is placed on top of the ice so the "coldness" seeps right up through. At shoot-around this morning we unknowingly decided to stretch at midcourt. I think I have frostbite.
It's almost time for our pre-game meal here at the hotel. It's a real nice hotel, only downside is that our room seems to have some quirks. For some reason we have no curtain for our window so I had to resort to piling my pillows around my face to block out the light streaming in from the parking lot all night. Our beds are missing a blanket - we have the bottom sheet and a comforter but no soft, warm layer in between. The thermostat is set to 62 degrees but the heater has been running all day and the actual temperature reads somewhere around 70 (which is also wrong - it must be almost 80 in here right now). And our sink is on steroids...turn the knob a bit to wet your toothbrush and the flood gates open, tearing the toothbrush from your grasp. But the shower is great, and that's really all you can ask for - that and comfortable beds, which we also have.
The dinner bell rings...
