EN favorite Colleen Rutledge returns today with her latest installment as an EN guest blogger. Needless to say, Colleen needs no introduction on EN. We wish her the best of luck and safe travels on her way to Badminton. Keep up with Colleen’s adventures and read the latest updates on her blog at colleenrutledgeeventing.com. Thank you for writing, Colleen, and thank you for reading.
From Colleen:
Here I sit, beginning my 12 hours of waiting for our flight. Okay, well my day started much earlier, like about 3 am, when I was questioning my sanity for getting up that early and trying to figure out ANY excuse to go back to bed. After a boiling hot shower (nothing like 2nd degrees burns all over your body to wake a girl up), a ‘quick’ run to McDs for my egg Mcmuffin (20 min and a full on argument with the order taker about the special: 2 sandwiches for $3), a quick finish loading the mound of equipment that HRH requires (we are smarter this year, I hope) and off we go.
So far so good, we aimed for a 4 am departure time, and left by 5. In my world, that is pretty close to on time! Unlike last year, when we aimed for 5 and left at 9. Why so early, you ask? Well, mom still has to drive the rig back and go to work for the rest of the evening. Have I mentioned lately that my mom is the best and I could never do this without her?!! The drive here was, wait for it, almost totally traffic free!!! Even through the Burroughs!!! Only one short stint on the NJ turnpike. My husband gets all of the blame for it, though. He made the cardinal error of calling me and mentioning the word traffic, while I was driving, therefore, angering the traffic gods. I appeased them by calling him back and blaming it all on him and promising them they could ensnarl him the whole time I was gone. Just after that, the roads opened back up! We actually managed to get here without getting lost this time (see, smarter! Or dumb luckier). Unloaded HRH, my mountain of equipment, and now we just nap and wait and wait and nap and wait and maybe another nap.
–C
