My wife knows that the night before I go to the National is like Christmas Eve when you were a kid. I have trouble falling asleep because I can't wait for the next day to get here. I live in between Chicago and Cleveland, so each time it is at one of those two places, I get up at 5 am on one of the days, usually Saturday or Friday, and make the 3-4 hour drive to either place. It feels like my Christmas day as a kid. Thankfully, my Christmas Holidays have a much deeper, spiritual, and family meaning now, but I think you get what I mean. No matter what the adults said, Christmas when you are a kid was about getting, not giving
Really looking forward to my first Net 54 dinner and my 9th National!