Chicago

Hello all! I am writing to you from Chicago! WOW!!!! This place is crazy big! I am from Kansas City, and I even lived in Denver and St. Louis, but wow, I still feel really small in this big city. Funny thing is, when I lived in those places, I never felt like they were big, now it seems that I look at things different. I just got back from KC and I can hardly stand the traffic, and the road construction and all the lines!!! I have settled into small town living nicely. (if that is how you spell that...sorry about the spelling tonight, I am still a bit dazed from my trip)So... Chicago. I started my trip with my first time at the Wichita Airport...hmmm not as big as one would expect for such a big town. I waited for my flight.... and waited... and waited. Finally I got to board, and as I waited in the line to get on the plane, I wondered why they opened the door to the tarmac instead of the door to the tunnel thing that takes you to the plain (that is the technical term I am sure) my eyes got really big and my stomach did a flip flop. No wonder I got such a good deal on the tickets... it was little plane, so little that you climb up stairs to get to it. I guess this trip is going to be a first for a lot of things. I climbed aboard the little plane, and settled into my little chair (again... they have to to make things for bigger people) and got ready to fly. I have no problems flying, it is just going to the strange place that I have never been before that gets me. So we get all ready to take off and the captain comes on and tells us that they have just closed the ground at Chicago, and we will have to wait until the top of the hour before we will know if we will even get to go. (that was an hour away). So we sat on our little plane, in our little seats for a LONG hour. I called Maya. She kept asking if I was in the air yet. So cute! So I got my call done and some reading and then we were in the air. The man next to me decided to take a little nap, and wouldn't you know... I have a little bladder. But I had to hold it because, first of all I was not so sure that the plane even had a bathroom, and second of all I did not want to bother the man that I was sitting on (you know little seat and all). So I waited.Finally we get the Chicago O'Hare, and I am just in awe at the size of the airport. I really felt like a little girl again! I do have to give a big thank you!!! to Darrin Green for telling me to "just follow the signs". Boy was he right!( and with the whole little bladder thing I was glad for those big signs!) I am still amazed at the airport. So, with all of that, here I am alive and well in my big room in big Chicago! I do miss my kido's! Maya is at my parents for the summer in KC, and Meredith and I just got back from a visit this week end. Poor Meredith kept thinking that I was going back to "Gi Gi's" (which in tow year old speak translates into Di Di that is my mom) house without her, because I had the suitcase out. Of corse you can only be going to grandma's house if the suitcase is out! Anyway, a call home to Matt found her already asleep. She had a hard day, we are trying to get rid of the pacifier, and only give it to her when she is sleeping. So she curled up into Matt's lap with her "binky" and went to sleep at 6:30. She will not be very happy with me in the morning. This is the first time since I have had her that I have been away from her for this long. I will have to call and check on her tomorrow.Well, that is all for me! I am here for a few days. Watch out big Chicago...here comes little old me!