Woke up to discover we had an inch or two of snow, but I had been careful to park on the asphalt so we were able to get out okay, though at one point, I slipped and fell on a patch of ice that covered the asphalt area. May have been better off on the gravel! Anyway, we managed to get packed up and out of there early, with a quick stop at a fast food joint for a to-go breakfast, and took a “non-toll” route to the Alliant Energy Center, which took us on some nice country roads, which had fortunately been cleared already. The snow got deeper along the roadside, however, they obviously had more snow further north. We later learned that Green Bay had had almost 3 feet of snow in the past week! I also heard on the radio that this was the coldest April in 137 years. Figures. I expected Spring when I planned this and I got winter when I got here. Sigh… Well, no one can accuse us of not living, and taking everything life can throw at us!! We arrived at the venue at about 8:30, then parked in a fairly long line waiting to offload Apollo at the barn. It took a bit of information-gathering to learn what stall he was assigned (turns out they gave me two, so I stored all his stuff next to him to keep the aisles clear, unlike the Hoosier Horse Fair, where everything was just piled up outside the stall), and then proceeded to get assigned to a VIP campsite. We were parked right next to another trailer, then realized we didn’t have a cable long enough to reach the electrical box, so the guy in charge of parking was kind enough to move us a couple of places over, which was great for us but meant he had to work a bit harder to get a couple of trailers in between, but he managed it beautifully! We took a quick ride over to the Exhibit Hall and found our booth location, and even managed to get everything moved in before it was time to get Hubby over to his dialysis center, which was only a few miles away. I got him set up over there, then returned to the Exhibit Hall and got everything set up, then back to the barn to finish getting Apollo settled in, then back to the camper to fill up with water, only to discover that the water hadn’t been turned on! Apparently, they were worried about the pipes freezing (even though they were frost-free spigots, but I guess the bureaucracy doesn’t know what those are), and since we had been told there would be water, we hadn’t filled up before we left Wolf Creek, so now I didn’t have enough water for the shower I so desperately needed! Grrrr again! Well, nothing to be done, so I gathered the laundry, then headed out to a nearby laundromat, finishing up just as Hubby was finishing his dialysis down the road, picked him up, then finally got back to the VIP parking area for the night, sans water. Phew! What a day!
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