Grounded
This is my newest refrigerator magnet, direct from London! I think Katie's going to look like the female version of this bloke when I pick her up at the airport this morning... I was supposed to pick her up at the airport last night... uh-huh, she did her first overnight at O'Hare -- one of the finest aiports in the land -- that would be, "Sleepless In Chicago."
It was supposed to be a very long travel day to begin with, and featured a very long lay-over at O'Hare, for which she prepared by buying a new book, The Constant Gardener, having just finished A Million Little Pieces (which she rather enjoyed). Well, the "lay-over" turned out to be spent in L.A. -- in an airplane -- on the tarmac or whatever it's called -- and her flight to Chicago ended up arriving 5 minutes after she was supposed to have arrived at her final destination. And no more flights 'til morning...
She got through it with a New Yorker and a new Sudoku book, regretfully having given her MP3 player to her littlest sister last week.
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I watched The Constant Gardener movie yesterday. It was good. But bleak, ya know?
Posted by: Carole | 12 May 2006 at 08:21 AM
Poor Katie, and congratulations on finishing all those ends, look forward to seeing the finished product.
Posted by: yvette | 12 May 2006 at 09:06 AM
Ugh. That's why I carry Xanax when I fly. Misery! Love the magnet and YAY FOR FIB ENDS!!!!!
Posted by: Cara | 12 May 2006 at 09:35 AM
you knitorious girls sure do love hangin' on tarmacs!
love the magnet!
Posted by: ann | 12 May 2006 at 10:07 AM
Glad she got back okay. Still haven't figured out Suduko but Beth did plenty of that on her flight to and from Thailand. Her brain is more nimble than mine, I guess.
Posted by: Mary in Boston | 12 May 2006 at 12:24 PM
The entire experience sounds familiar :-). Tell Katie it bodes well for many (happy) traveling adventures in the future.
Posted by: colleen | 13 May 2006 at 07:56 AM
I wish I'd have known. i could have picked her up and gave her a nice bed to sleep in for the night. I'd be happy to help out a blogger's child........and I would have gotten her some great Chicago pizza...
Posted by: kathy b | 13 May 2006 at 10:36 AM
Love the magnet - so appropriate. Glad your daughter got back safely. Time in airports suck and you feel like warmed over crap when you finally get where you're going. Good thing she is young; she'll probably recover more quickly.
Posted by: Cynthia | 13 May 2006 at 09:02 PM
Wow, the ends are woven in! Way to go!! :) Sorry about the layover. That sucks! I hope you had a Happy Mother's Day!
Posted by: Kathleen | 15 May 2006 at 07:06 AM