Life, Love, and Pursuit of more food Vouchers!

So I bet you all were expecting a post from Brazil...well alas despite a valiant effort, we are stuck in Chicago the Windy, cold city. Althought today is quite beautiful. After a full day of traveling we were detained in Denver with a delayed flight getting us into Chicago with only 10 min to travel to a different concourse to catch our Sao Paolo flight. Garrett ran ahead in hopes of making them wait for 5 other people. But when he got there they'd just closed the doors (about 5 min. before departure time) and they wouldn't let him hold the plane for the other 5 individuals who were getting in touch with their inner Iron Man and running up and down escalators to get to the plane. Oh well, we said, he waved to the pilots through the glass windows though...and everywhere, Brazilians are saying "ha ha...silly americains". OH WELL. So here we are, having spent the evening at the airport hotel, our new flight not leaving until this evening. So we have a day of adventure in Chicago ahead of us.

So the United representative is checking us into a new flight and Kerry (Garrett, Taylor, and Syndey's Mom) asks for food vouchers and hotel vouchers. So the lady gives us 6 $10 food vouchers. Now, I'll put up pictures later, but Garrett, Taylor, and Tim (their dad) are 6'3 easy--they are formidible big men :)...do you think someone like that can eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner for $10? And so began the process of haggling for more food vouchers with the United representative to feed 6 people until 9pm the next night. Nope, we are not in South America yet, the haggling went unheeded...so United believes we should eat frugally while in Chicago.

So here we be, we'll venture out today and catch our flight tonight and hopefully my next post will be from Brazil! No pictures or more writing, because internet is hellashously expensive here! But love to you all!