Flirting With Disaster

What's wrong with a little flirting?

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Day 2 Lost much?

After several minutes of pacing back and forth in front of Kathy and Scott's window wondering if Lisa had decided she would have more fun on the road without me, she came through and arrived.  Literally minutes before the skies opened up and poured.  My suitcase was barely in the trunk before the cats and dogs came pouring down.  Since this was such an auspicious beginning to our trip we didn't get the photo ops, but instead headed out into the rainy abyss.
We immediately popped in the Illinois cd (if you didn't know, I made a cd for each state we were to visit, using only musicians from that state or songs that have the state name in the song.) and began rocking out in the rain.
Our first stop was to be the worlds largest pair of silly nose and glasses.  We plugged in the address in GPS and off we were.  GPS preceded to try and lead us down not one, not two, but three roads that were either closed or did not even exist.  After our third foil, we gave up on our quest to see the nose and glasses - sigh.  We preceded on to Warsaw, Indiana to see Lisa's younger brother Greg who works at the prestigious Wagon Wheel Theater.  Greg works crazy hours and builds amazing sets, when we visited he was working on the set up for an amazing production of The Wizard of Oz.  The two 20 minutes meals that we got to see Greg were great and then we were off on the road again....

On the Road Day 1ish

I began the first day of my trip by not sleeping.  It wasn't just the excitement of leaving to spend time with Lisa...I also had an important job to do.  Meghan had not seen far too many classic 80's and 90's movies.  Our evening began with a little bit of Troop Beverly Hills.  This is the classic 90's sleep over movie- all of my favorite childhood sleepovers include a viewing of this movie.  We then moved on to Empire Records and then some High Fidelity.  By this time it was 3:30 in the morning and time to take me to the airport.
I boarded a plane to Atlanta with a second flight into Chicago.  My first flight was awful- my first experience being air sick- followed by a second flight that was better than the first.
I arrived in Chicago and was greeted at the airport by my dear college friend Mr. Man.  He brought me back to his adorable home where I was able to visit with his beautiful wife and my college RA Kathy.  Kathy and Scott have been working to carefully clone two of the most adorable mini-me's I have ever seen.  It was a good thing those boys were cute because not long into my visit I was forced down into a dank, murky very spooky crawl space to wait out the tornadoes that loomed overhead.  If I hadn't had two such strong and brave young men to protect me, I definitely would have freaked.  But both boys were champs and didn't flinch during our 35 minutes in captivity.
The rest of the evening was spent in wonderful reminiscing over college and talk of dreams for the future.  I am so happy that my return trip will include another visit with Kathy and Scott and their beautiful boys!!