SassyBlonde

We rolled into Milwaulkee today, beginning a three-night stay in the same hotel. Finally.

Getting up every morning and packing up and moving out is starting to get really old at this point, so it's nice to know that tomorrow morning I will neither have to get up early nor pack up all my possessions and schlepp them down to the bus. That can be a real bitch when the parking lot is covered in ice like glass and you have a thirty-foot walk to the bus to get through. I should know, because I almost broke myself trying to do just that this morning. The ice on the long, shallow hotel steps was so transparent that I didn't see it until I found myself nearly ass-over-tits and hanging onto my suitcase for balance and dear life trying to stay upright. That's going to smart tomorrow.

Rollin', rollin', rollin and then we were overjoyed to find ourselves staying across the street from a great big mall in Milwaulkee, at a hotel with Sleep Number beds and room service. Awesome. To find all of these things at a night's stop is a touring musician's dream-- as you've already read, we often get stuck with a gas station across the street in the middle of nowhere and are left to fend for ourselves for food and entertainment. Joy. Fortunately, we're in a veritable mecca of entertainment here, with a mall, a theater, and awesome restaurants. We went over and walked the mall, where we tried out the iMedic chair at Brookstone, got coffee, and decided to see The Golden Compass (*squee*) and then promptly hied back here to our rooms to sack out. (And yet, here I am at 11pm typing.) Looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow and trying to walk the mall a couple of times for fun.