Postcards from Lexington

Greetings from Lexington, KY. You would think the state of Kentucky would be ripe for all SORTS of blog material – but I guess my blog filter is still set uncomfortably tight after last week’s surgery recuperation =)

Flying into Lexington is a little like putting down directly into a plantation. I feel inclined to disclose the news of the industrial revolution to these folks. The horse-farm-to-trailer-park ratio is about four to one. Incidentally, city ordinances here in Lexington require frequent and awkward usage of thoroughbred horse references. Man O’ War International Airport [Really? You’re naming your airport after a horse…doesn’t that seem self-defeating?], Triple Crown Parkway, Seabiscuit Arena. The Most Exciting Two Minutes In Sports Lounge has the shortest happy hour I’ve ever seen. I don’t know about you, but I’m just hoping that injured auditors in Lexington don’t get euthanized.

The hotel, however, is not as idyllic as the scenery. The Hilton Garden Suites sits in the middle of the Chukkas retail/office/restaurant complex on Secretariat Boulevard alongside the lovely Run-for-Roses man-made lake. The setting is just charming….until.you.hear the adjacent restaurant’s LIVE BAND wafting up the perfect, Carnegie-Hall-like acoustics of the Garden Suites’ five floors. I mean like bionic woman perfect acoustics.

If I didn’t already have an iPod full of bad cover music, I could make a perfect bootleg tape [more stocking stuffers?] from my hotel room. And can I just ask…is there some cover band credo that requires you to play “Margaritaville” every hour, on the hour??!?! When I phoned downstairs, their response was… ”Don’t worry…they.only.play.til.10” Can three chords really sustain them for another 2 hours?? So each night, I get exactly.the.same 4 hour montage of Bob Seger/Travis Tritt/Jimmy Buffet. It’s like being trapped in a week-long wedding reception. I can barely hear American Gladiators over this ruckus. I don’t know if I will be able to fall asleep to anything other than “WE LOVE YOU LEXINGTON!!”