The Swamp Day 2

Today started off perfectly with pouring rain and thunderstorms in the swamp. Jason was up all night do to the french student dance party happening in the hotel room next to his all night, so the awakening to pouring rain was not the best way to start a day. After navigating the Reitz union parking garage in major chaos, we sat down to start the day of interviews.

We interviewed 26 very qualified applicants for the chance to replace Teryl and Amy all day and heard some interesting stories, made some creative nicknames, and drank 3 bottles of water each.

After seeing Lynne Vaughan at lunch we ate the best food the Reitz union has to offer: Teriyaki bowls and Subway. Teryl came by and said hi while still rocking his JS apparel and pack with pride. After lunch headed back to the rest of the interviews then raced too the airport to make our flight to charlotte with only 3 minutes to spare. We flew to CLT had a 3 hour layover in which we ate some CPK. Unfortunately they were out of chocolate chip cookies so we opted for Oatmeal Raisin, which is quite possibly the worst cookie ever. We boarded our plane to Minneapolis and are scheduled to land around midnight (Yes this is blogging from 36,000 feet). We'll hopefully be picking up another winner of a rental car (its going to be tough to top the stang though) then drive to our lodging to sleep for another 4 hours and do it all over again manana. We've never been to University of Minnesota so we're hoping to find Goldie the Gopher and the best cafeteria food they have to offer.

See you tomorrow from Minn-uh-so-duh.

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Stats:

Nights in Holiday Inns: Jason 2, Laurie 1

Miles traveled today: 1,273

Quotes of the day:

"I'm from a territory not a state." - girl from the virgin islands.

"You don't know anything about disney princess burbery purse wearing pageant girls." - Another UF Interviewee.

Spill count week two: 0 (so far)

Chocolate count: 1 (Utter-deliciousness) see pic:


Random sign of the day:



Yes a maintenance door at the Charlotte airport calling out hearing tests. You had to be there.

Thoughts:

1. Why is all airport food unhealthy and terrible tasting? Trader Joes needs to expand to the airport market.

2. Has anyone had a pizza flavored jelly bean before? Do they really exist?

3. We wish we could go on the roller coaster at the mall of America tomorrow.

4. Bonnaroo countdown: 60 days

5. Rule of thumb, if you are wearing an airplane neck pillow and decide to get up to go to the bathroom, take it off please. You don't need to walk around a plane looking like you were in a car accident and need a neck brace, leave it on the seat then go to the potty.

6. Laurie spells the heisman trophy winners name like so: Tibow. And has no idea who he is or what a heisman trophy is.

7. Forgot to inform everyone that Jason saw a Darryl Isaacs billboard in Indiana last week (reference Kentucky Interviewing 08) and got super excited to see the big hitter.

8. Hopefully we can find more delicious chocolate tomorrow, or a banana, or someother delightful concoction that the "U" has that we don't know about.

9. Johnathan Taylor Thomas also known as JTT is now getting married. Tis a good day for the cast of Home improvement.