I'm your huckleberry...
I have gone tot he ASC every year since 02. I'm counting the days NOW till the next one. You see...TheBlockHead really doesn't think much of the Olympia...he stands and lives for the Arnold Classic weekend. It being a 5 hour drive from Chicago...usually I roll with a couple 'G's up there and we live, shit, eat, breathe, bodybuilding stuff the entire weekend.
The most challenging part of the whole weekend is having to drive through Indiana to get there...it's very unpleasant but comical when pulling into a gas station and placing bets on what 80's metal band concert t-shirt the clerk will have on.
If someone wants to organize a GETBIG meeting place at the ASC then you can count TheBlockHead in!
All I know...is 'The Best Western Columbus-North' is my favorite place to stay! AWESOME gym there, huge pool, hottubs, aweseom bar/restraunt and failry inexpensive...PLUS...lot s of pro's etc stay there...but reserve by early Feburary.