Short Trip to ATL (9/13)

So on Saturday I headed off to the airport to stay in ATL a few days (hadn't seen Garry since I left for holiday). In the meantime while I traveled to the airport Robyn picked up Steph and took her to the train station. She said it was freaky b/c she looked over and Steph looked like me and sounded like me but it wasn't. Ha Ha. (We sound so much alike and even mom cant tell us apart sometimes)

The commute to ORD that day was horrendous. I left 2.5 hours prior to my flight b/c I was taking the L. So I said goodbye to my sis and went off to find a cab in the pouring rain. I got a cab after waiting about 5 minutes in the rain:-) I had the cab take me to the closest L stop, there i waited approx another 10 minutes for the train went 3 stops just to get off the train, get on a shuttle bus and back on a couple stops ahead (due to construction - which i did check the website prior to leaving and it wasn't listed) So, we get to the Rosemont stop (one stop until ORD) and find out that the no traffic from the express way or the the train will not be able to go any further into ORD b/c of flooding. So appox 100 people were at the Rosemont stop not knowing what to do. In the mean time I found that my originally 1140 flight was delayed until 130. So not knowing what to do I waited around a few more minutes and saw a Home Sweet Marriott shuttle, I decided to hop on. I went to the closest Marriott hotel b/c I really didn't know what to do at that point. I hung out in the lobby for about 1/2 hour with other people that had been stranded. We got word that they were letting people back into ORD so I hopped on the shuttle and finally got to the airport around 1200 (I left my apartment at 9 - so it had already been a long day!)

Since I had some time to blow in the airport while I waited for my delayed flight I decided to straigten my hair in the bathroom. Ha Ha. It was frizzy from the rain and had nothing better to do although I did get some strange looks. I finally made to ATL around 4. I was planning on meeting Garry at our "normal" location but he surprised me and came into the airport. After you get off the escalaters in ATL there is an area where people stand to greet the arrivals and I totally wasn't paying attention. I was focused on where I needed to go and jammin to "American Boy" and then I saw someone darting at me from the corner of my eye and it was him! I know it wont happen often, but it was nice:-)

That night we went to dinner at BWs - for some reason I had been craving it and it was delicious. Sunday we watched football (the lions lost to Green Bay and it was TERRIBLE) The rest of the evening consisted of football. Around 930EST the announcement was made about Bank of America acquiring Merril Lynch and Lehman Brothers going bankrupt. At the time I didn't realize the financial services industry was going to get much worse.

So it was pretty much a relaxing few days in ATL and then I headed back to Chicago on Tuesday night.