Why does Chicago hate me?!...

SO... here I am in Tokyo, all alone and feelin' blue. Sounds like the opening lyric from a really bad country song! Forgive me - I am a little punchy. You probably noticed that the title of this post appears to have absolutely nothing to do with Tokyo. For those of you who know me well you know that I had really bad luck with some of my trips last year and the bad luck always seemed to center around Chicago when traveling to Europe or Montreal. I spent two joyless nights there on two separate unplanned ocassions. OK, I have to confess, the night I spent there with Angela was actually pretty nice, despite having no luggage. We had a really nice dinner and enjoyed the adventure, but I digress. You would think that traveling through Tokyo to Singapore would not be affected by Chicago in any way - you would be wrong! When we landed here I discovered that my connecting flight was delayed by almost 4 hours! When I enquired as to what the delay was the response was "we are waiting for a plane that is late coming in from Chicago".. unbelievable! For those who give a rip - here is a diagram of the airport. it is dark outside so not much else to see. I was supposed to land in Singapore at midnight but now it will be more like 4:00am! Nothing says fun like staying up for 36 hours and spending 22. 5 of them flying.

What did I ever do to the Chicagoans, or as Erika would say the "Chicagers"? I have faithfully travelled through their fair city for years and have spent more than my fair share of money buying Chicago style pizza and pasta - where is the love? Are they mad at me because I think they are all overweight and have an accent that makes them sound like candidates for the single digit IQ club? Are they jealous because I now live in Colorado where the skies are blue, the days are long and the powder is deep? Or is it simply some kind of well orhcestrated cosmic joke? Whatever the case may be I am really getting pi**ed off. I say we close down their airports altogether and route all of the midwest traffic through Denver. At least we have a decent airport!

Sorry for the rant... I am all better now, I guess there is nothing left for me to do but go eat some raw fish and rice. One last kind of funny thing. I am sitting in the red carpet club posting this message and almost was not able to do so. As I logged into blogger the page was basically entirely in Japanese, I fumbled my way through and finally made it in - screen shot below! Have a great day.