March 14 Fort Des Moines

The venue gave us a discounted rate on the downtown Fort Des Moines hotel. But the cheapskates that we are, we only purchased one room. Andrew, Kevin and Nate purchased the room and got settled in. Then 2 or 3 at a time, we wandered through the dark corridors of the hotel, taking emergency exits and carefully walking through empty ballrooms of the way-to-reminiscent-of-the-Shining hotel bowels—working our way back out to the street to sneak in all 9 of us. In the end, I'm sure the hotel security was well aware of the entire plot and just chose not to bother with some idiot kids who thought they were getting away with something. But for us, it was a great way to close our night.