Holiday Travels

12/23/08
weight 117 lbs.
breakfast: 2 or 3 thin slices of salami, 6 olives, 1 large, roasted red banana pepper, on a slice of multi grain bread
lunch:3 thin slices of salami, 6 olives, 1 large, roasted red banana pepper, on a slice of multi grain bread, 1-2 servings of tortilla chips (we made sandwiched and ate them at the airport in Phoenix while waiting 4 hours for our delayed flight)
dinner: Wendy's hamburger and small fries at Phoenix Sky Harbor airport
Bailey's on the rocks, around midnight at Chicago O'Hare

12/24/08
breakfast: oatmeal with dried fruit (from Starbucks at Chicago O'Hare)
lunch: Caesar salad and bowl of chili from Chili's (at Chicago O'Hare) Notice a pattern here?
dinner: McDonald's hamburger and small coke (around 8 p.m.) from somewhere in Indiana

12/25/08
breakfast: (actually, annual Christmas brunch)
1 biscuit with sausage grave, 1 fried egg, little bit of grapefruit and orange, 2 pieces of bacon, 1 piece of sausage, 1 piece of goetta, 1 cinnamon, pecan caramel roll, 1 cup coffee with splenda and non-dairy creamer, 2 mimosas.
dinner: small slice of ham and 1/2 piece of bread, baked beans, pickle slices, 2 deviled eggs, candied sweet potatoes with marshmallows and cinnamon, 1 regular coke, 1 piece of chocolate torte, a few pieces of homemade cinnamon candy.

Other Information:
My husband and I left our house at noon on Tuesday 12/23 and headed for the airport. Our flight was supposed to leave at 3:40 to Chicago, and then on to Dayton. We were scheduled to arrive in Dayton at 11 p.m. (eastern time), where my parents would pick us up and we would spend Christmas with my family in Oxford and Hamilton, Ohio. (Most of my family live within 35 miles north of Cincinnati). What actually happened was, our flight to Chicago was delayed for 4 hours. Since a friend had dropped us off at the airport, we decided to hang around the airport. When we finally got to Chicago sometime between 11 p.m. and 12 a.m. central time, and found a huge mess. It had snowed heavily in Chicago all day and flights out were canceled. Around 1:30 a.m. we found out we could be put on the stand by list for the first flight out at 7 a.m. It didn't make sense to try and find a hotel - by the time we did, it would be time to come back. We hunkered down on the not so comfortable airport seats and tried to get some sleep. A girl on the bench across from me coughed continuously, babies cried, some guy was snoring loud enough to wake the dead. I'm not sure I actually slept. At 4:30 am, we got up and had breakfast. The flight we were hoping to go standby on was delayed and there was no way we were getting on that flight, or any other flight for the day. All flights were full, plus all the travelers from the day before who's flights had been canceled were trying to find a seat on these full flights. We decided to rent a car and drive. There were no rental cars to be found. My dad hopped in my mom's Escalade and drove 5 hours from Oxford to come and pick us up. We left Chicago around 7 p.m. (est) and arrived at my parents at exactly midnight. What an experience!