Ahh, Chicago

Just returned from Chicago - man was that cold. We got there just in time for their first December blizzard in many years. Our plane was forced to circle for almost 45 minutes while they plowed the runways at Midway, and then they grounded everything right after we landed. Three hours later, a Southwest jet slid off the runway onto a street, hit a car and killed a kid.

That night we were supposed to see Wicked at the Oriental theater. We trudged two blocks through four inches of snow from the el stop to the theater, dragging our luggage (our ride couldn't get to Midway because of the snow), only to have the show cancel (the theater was having power failures). Fortunately our ride managed to make it to the theater (he was going to the show with us), so we weren't stranded in the Loop.