Monday, November 19, 2012

Chicago 2012 (Part 1) - Leaving

I have to say I'm pretty good at preparing for packing day and would make a list of what to bring and make sure I'm ready to leave at the time I've been given. I hate people waiting on me for something that would mess up an entire schedule. I actually washed all my clothes and packed the night before so all I had left were my daily routines and head out out the door. We were all to meet at my friend, Ferida's house around 9 but I didn't want to leave my car over there during the entire weekend so I had my cousin, Rosie pick me up so we can have a quick breakfast and drop me off at the house.


While we got our breakfast at McDonalds' drive thru and ate in the car I arrived at the house with no one there at all. I called Ferida on my phone and she was actually just taking her dog for a walk and she'll be back in a few. That's fine a little wait wouldn't matter to me I thought but where is everyone else? I decided to wait til she gets back to question about that. I was told later that they're still packing and getting ready and she still had a dog so still had the errand of dropping off her dog at her cousin's house. When we got back to the meeting place, the others still have not arrived which I guess worked because she hasn't started packing in the first place. So I just hung out and watched TV until another sister arrived.

We finally found out that we'll need to pick the last sister, Elma at the house so once we're all packed and ready to go we loaded up in the car and drove to the last sister's house. Luckily there wasn't a lot of waiting on that part as she was already packed and ready to go. So after all of that morning madness we were finally on our way to Chicago. Seems like no one else had a chance to eat so we ended up at another's McDonald's where it was no lunch time. The drive wasn't so bad but traveling with a little 8 year old can be well... well another form of birth control as I would never want one in the nearby future. Because of our late departure of the day we ended up being stuck in traffic for a while. As fast as they drove we ended up getting there around 5:00 so just right at the start of rush hour so we spent a couple hours stuck behind miles of cars. I'll continue on the next entry.

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