Mars viewing hope

I hope, along with many people, to not be home at midnight, when The ScreenSavers would be on my TV. I hope instead to be out at Birds Hill Park, just outside Winnipeg, where the U of Manitoba, the Planetarium, and the RASC Winnipeg Center are having a Mars viewing. I haven't looked outside, nor even bothered to look at the weather channel. because I don't want to hear bad news. I want to go out and see Mars in all it's beauty tonight with great telescopes, and maybe see some of the other awesome sights and stars. The only hitch now is a ride. I have had 2 different plans fall through, and a coworker who said he might be able to scrounge a ride is off tonight and I do not have his number. *sigh*