Atlanta weather made me soft
People in Atlanta said it was cold this weekend.
To me, it was nice. Cool enough that jackets were required, but not cold enough that they had to be zipped up all the way. But now that I'm back in Illinois, the cold is killing me...
The Georgia Aquarium is really neat and the big tank (all 6.3 million gallons of it) is so big you can't see the other side. I'm still sorting through the boatload of photos I snapped. How I wished for a DSLR and a wide-angle lens.
It seems like every time I visit Andy, the flight home is crazy. This time, thanks to a more than 12 hours of continual rain and storms, flights were delayed. Very delayed. By the time we got to the airport in the evening our flight was more than 2 hours delayed. With a little investigative work by Joe, we managed to grab the last two stand-by seats on an earlier flight that had also been delayed. The upshot of which was that we only left about 20 minutes later than our originally scheduled flight. Go us!
Flying into Chicago at night is always a treat. We flew just south of Valparaiso, IN and I was able to see the lights from the VU campus as well as the helicopter light at Porter Memorial Hospital. The lights of the megalopolis that is Milwaukee/Chicago/Gary along with the stark contrast of the darkness of Lake Michigan is an amazing feast for the eyes.