I Finally Have Wireless

Well, good afternoon, Indianapolis time. It has taken me 2.5 days to finally get wireless, so I could send posts regarding my trip. It is easier for me to blog to my girls since the time change makes it difficult. When I am free, the girls will be sleeping. When the girls are free, I am sleeping. So...lets play catch up.
DAY 1:
I left Spokane Wednesday morning. It was the first nice day we'd had in a long time and of course, I am on a plane. I escorted a nice young lady from Camas, Washington. Her family is moving to Idaho after she graduates, so she spends the summer here. She and I fly to Chicago and will fly home together. Kailee and I hit it off well, and we really enjoyed talking, sleeping and reading. We landed in Phoenix, only to find we had a delay. There were amazingly devastating storms in Chicago, so we had to wait 25 extra minutes to take off. As we were sitting, waiting, a very large man, very large (over 7 feet) sat across from us with his friends. They were talking, we chitchatted. They were nice enough. People kept asking them for pictures. Kailee and I figured they were famous. We deducted, due to his height, that he was a basketball player. Again using our sleuthing skills, we decided he played for Phoenix or Chicago, since that is where we were flying. We popped out the iTouch and googled Phoenix Suns. There were quite a few that could have been him, but we noticed a really unique tattoo that matched our new found friend. It was Amar'e Stoudamire and played for the Suns. This made the wait a bit less irritating.
Let see, we couldn't land in Chicago because of storms, so we had to land in Milwuakee and wait the storm out. We also had to fuel up there...I think that was a good choice. By the time we landed, met up with the rest of the group, and got our luggage, it was late. We made it to our hotel and found a pizza place to eat. WE didn't eat until 10:30 pm. The pizza was fabulous though. Chicago is known for its pizza, so it was the best I'd ever had. Here is an interesting pizza: Hawaiian, which is canadian bacon, pineapple and BBQ sauce. It was good, weird, but good. My favorite was chicken, artichoke hears, and alfredo sauce...hmmmm. We didn't have to worry about eating quickly because the store was open until 4 am. Who eats pizza a 4 am?
We were to bed late, and we got up early. The time change made the time really early. We got up at 6 and were on the road by 7, but it was really 4 am and 5 am your time.
We spent the rest of the day in Chicago. I love Chicago. We went to the top of the Sears Tower...it is 103 stories. It is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. The elevator, it is in the center of the building, takes 30 seconds...30 seconds to go 103 stories. I also was really brave. There were 4 all glass rooms built off the side of the building. You could walk out and look straight down. It was scary...safe, but scary. I have a picture on my phone to show you, or Grammie can go Facebook to find the picture I posted there.
We walked to an art museum, ate lunch in a park with a found the spits water. It is very cool. It has thousands of videos of peoples faces. The two walls are 3 stories tall. The videos play and then, all of a sudden, the water spits out of its mouth. It is called Millenium Park. On the otherside of a foot bridge is Grant Park. This is where Obama accepted his victory as president. It was very cool to stand where history was made.
Next, we went to a Field Museum. It had Sue, the T Rex, and mastadons and wolly mammoths. They were stuffed of course, but very cool. Daddie would love it because they had almost every kinds of bird and animal known to man stuffed and on display. It had 50 types of hummingbirds. Some day, we will go.
We went to dinner at a place called Sopranos. It was an old restaurant that had no windows, just cut outs so we could feel the heat. We ate family style. They brought the appetizers, salads and dinner on big plates just like dinner at our house...only this food was really good. I am eating a lot of really really good food. After dinner, we walked to Briar Street Theatre and watched the Blue Man Group. They are men, painted blue, that don't talk and make us laugh with their expressions, and actions. They even spit bananas and twinkies at the crowd. We had to wear ponchos to keep clean.
This morning we left for Indianapolis, Indiana. We just got to our hotel, but we need to leave and go eat. Hard Rock Cafe and an Indianapolis Indians Baseball game in on the agenda for tonight. I love you both a ton and miss you. I will write more when we get back. Hope you are having fun.
Mama