Wouldn't you know? Chuck and Jackie's flight from Des Moines was CANCELED on Sunday morning. The airline graciously decided to put them on their next flight out of town -- on Monday night!
Yeah, right. Chuck would have none of that nonsense. He booked a direct flight from Omaha to Newark, grabbed a rental car and drove the 100 miles to Omaha, and then landed in Newark last night around 9 p.m.
The long, strange trip to Junior Nationals 2010 was complete. Thank goodness for school credit cards.
Drake was an interesting host stadium. The place was half-empty most of the time, which wasn't cool. But it was HOT for the entire meet, and there was a big Arts Festival in downtown Des Moines.
And, probably most importantly, this was the rare non-Olympic/non-Worlds year for the Senior USATF meet -- happens only once every four years. So while there were some pretty decent highlights, the bottom line is, this meet just didn't have the juice that it normally has -- again, totally understandable.
Hopefully, we will be lucky enough to have some more qualifiers for 2011 -- wherever it might be.
1 comment:
Even though it was a non-Olympic/non-Worlds year, at least the quimes, nico, and jackie got to see some pros race. In 2008, Keegan, Vess, and I didnt even get to see the Senior National meet because it wasnt held in conjuction with ours.
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