day 1 - my little sister, margaret, wanted to come live with me for the summer. she lived with lea in new york last summer and wanted to take advantage of my new town this year. we met up in new york over memorial day weekend and she was going to fly standby on airtran U (for college kids) back to chicago. we get to the airport on tuesday and there are no flights to chicago! so instead, she hopped a plan back to atlanta (sad) in hopes of making it to chicago within the next few days. what airtran doesn't tell you (or at least emphasize) is that you can fly standby for $69 per segment and you cannot check luggage. so i had to take margaret's luggage with me to chicago and sent her to atlanta.
in atlanta, margaret learns the people in new york lie and there really are flights to chicago that day. multiple! so she gets another standby ticket and gets on a plane to the midwest. i however am at the airport, on the runway, in the air, at my destination airport for 10+ hours on tuesday. so margaret makes it from nyc to atl to chi before i'm halfway through my flight.
but she made it! and i did too! we took the elevated orange line into the city and margaret commented on how it's kind of scary to ride on elevated tracks. i said 'oh these have been around forever and nothing happens.'
day 2, 10am - green line derailment
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Thanx to Colleen for thinking about going to the Airtran desk and checking on flights when we got to ATL or Me-Me probably would still be here! Glad you missed the Green Line and hope you're having fun in Chi-town!
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