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Michael: Arrival

<7/04/2008> WARREN, MI--This morning was a blur for the most part. I got up, I got dressed, I walked out the door. We drove to the flyaway and we got on the 6:30 bus. Then we were at the airport and it was mostly hurry-up and wait until we got to the gate. The guy in charge of checking our bags decided to take a coffee break right before helping Heddy and Jeremy. Leif's bowling balls almost weren't allowed on the plane; he was carrying them on.

On the 757 ride to Dallas, Cory and I sat across the aisle from my folks and we watched Horton Hears a Who on the plane screens, but came to the conclusion that it was more amusing if we didn't use the audio and just made up our own dialog. Jeremy slept after the battery to his laptop or iPod or sthn died, which must have been shortly following takeoff. On the MD80 ride from Dallas to Detroit, Cory and I sat with Zoe. Her movie got a bit loud and she kept getting progressively more annoyed that we'd ask her to turn it down, and she didn't want headphones. So, I asked her to turn it off and the three of us played a few rounds of cards until I decided to get a little bit of sleep. Zoe proposed to Cory that they play Uno in my absence, so Cory got to learn how to play Uno.

When we got here and checked in to the hotel, we went to get the balls out of hock and came back and distributed them. Then we all piled into a few cars and caravaned to Cracker Barrel. I had catfish, and while it wasn't by ANY means bad, it wasn't what I would consider the best piece of catfish I've ever had either. While eating the catfish, an intrigued 'Mu leaned over, and snagged a piece off the end. To everyone's surprise, he liked it...ALOT. So then we all piled back into the cars and came back to the hotel. We all just sort of relaxed until we all decided it was time to sleep.

Forecast for tomorrow: Get up early...again, eat, practice, check in to the tournament, bowl another practice squad, then come back and find something to entertain ourselves with...maybe food...

Tomorrow, the games begin, and with any luck that means I'll work up an appetite. ^_^

--Mike