Are we there yet?

We are currently in transit from the Lou to the Windy City, gotta love the wireless internet connection. By the math, it should be just over 500 miles, which will take us about five or so hours. So far, the drive has been pretty boring. Lots of flat farmland, unidentifiable road kill, and slow drivers. It's pretty sad when the highlight of the first hour of drive time is seeing a department of corrections prisoner transport van.
We should arrive in Chicago right around lunch time, which will give us plenty of time to get checked into our hotel, find the expo and pick up the race information. I'm definitely planning on driving the race course, just to get an idea of what to expect tomorrow.
The good news is that when my husband checked the forecast this morning, it was slightly warmer than they were predicting earlier this week. There's still a high (60-70%) chance of rain until 11:00am tomorrow, but at least they've removed the snow flurries from the forecast. Rain looks pretty appealing to me when I consider the alternative idea of snow.