The food situation is ... odd, but improving.
Breakfast is every day at the Holiday Inn Express. Hard boiled eggs, cinnamon rolls (not fantastic cinnamon rolls, but pretty good -- and free!) juice, scrambled eggs of questionable quality, cereal. Not a bad spread.
Inside the perimeter, if you don't have a hall pass, you are pretty much restricted to the hot dog stand. Corn dogs, burgers, fries -- and canned soda. No fountain. There is also a Circle K inside the perimeter where you can get convenience store food, and use a gas station bathroom.
If you DO have a hall pass, you not only get to use the indoor plumbing, you also have access to a better array of food vendors. We skipped the "buffalo bratwurst" stand and moved on to DiGiorno pizza -- which was a horible mistake. The sauce was eh, and the crust was not cooked through, so it was basically ketchup on raw pizza dough. Apparently if you go left off the escalator, the selection is better, with barbecue and fish and chips stands. That figures, a left turn at the Democratic convention yields better results. Will be trying that tonight. Or maybe we'll just walk alllllll the way around. The other item of note inside the hall are the mini doughnuts. Yummm. Will be getting more of those tonight.
Apparently Wednesday and Thursday will be catered affairs. And by "catered" I think I mean, "box lunches will be provided." But I'm not sure.
Notable Quotes:
(Speaking of food)
"I can't believe you're eating that. Your body is a temple."
"Yeah. And my taste buds are the altar, damn it."
(After cramming 10 people into a minvan built for seven, including a top editor and her son into the trunk) "Hey, just hang in there and we'll be to Nogales in 18 hours!"
(Random conventioneer on his cellphone:) "No. No! NOOO!!"
(Snarked as we walked past) "Yes. Yes, we can. We don't appreciate your negativity."
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