First Omaha Experience

Well, rolled back into B.R. about 10PM last night. Thought i'd share a little bit of my first Omaha experience. The fact that it was a learning experience goes without saying. The fans around the stadium were great. It was great seeing fans from all of the CWS teams partying together.The locals(no matter what you read on other sites) love to have LSU fans in town. Everywhere we went we we told the same thing. "LSU fans are the best."We love it when LSU makes the CWS". The people at Barret's said it, the beer tent owner said it, even the cop working the cross walk in front of the stadium said it. Here's a few things I learned. 1. Get in line really early if you want to upgrade your GA tickets.Don't bother trying to beat the scalpers,I really believe that they sleep there. If not you'll wait in a long line and walk away empty handed.2.If you don't upgrade, get in line realy early at the GA entrance.3.Avoid the right field bleacher seats, the sun NEVER sets in Omaha and right field stares into the sun the WHOLE game.4. Although the zoo across the street says zoo parking only, they will let you park there and charge you the $10 zoo admission for everyone in the car.So if you drop the crowd off and go alone you can park for $10.

Overall the whole Omaha experience was really enjoyable, I met a lot of really nice locals and even a few transplanted Louisianians.

The 2 negatives I can think of are avoid the "Clarino" hotel at all costs.The pools was broke,the hot tub was broke, the vending machines were broke.even the non smoking rooms smelled like ash trays and the bathroom plumbing leaked which kept the carpet wet all of the time.And "service" was non existent. The other negative was the attitude of a few of the people during the 2 rain delays. The first day, I had a 10 yr old with me, I managed to get her into the covered area but we ended up pinned into the corner behind one of the lemonade stands.The lady working the stand was extremely nice and even talked to a few of the kids there to calm them down.The man working the stand howerver, was not so nice.He kept complaining about how we should be back there and trying to point out ways for us to get out from behind the stand.NO ONE could move and this guy is trying to push a 10 yr old out into the crowd!
During the second rain delay we made it a little further before the rain came down and managed to duck into and open truck trailer.They owner of thre truck who inside of the trailer keeping himself warm had the same attitude and the lemonade guy. "You people shouldn't be in here" "I'm going to charge admission" "this is truck not a storage shed" A little compassion for the people who's money is the whole reason he is there in the first place would have been nice.

Okay, that's my Omaha rant for today...

Would I do it again? Hell Yeah! Go Tigers !