Interestingly, with all the horrid weather in Chicago, we were not delayed there at all due to weather. It was simply due to Air India's incompetence.

While we looked silly outside in those blankets, we sure were thankful to have them.

Sue, Mom is affected, as is my whole family. She had been on NCL Majesty for a week and then in Jamaica at Beaches for a few days.

After that, she was at my sister's a couple of days working out things with her deer struck car. She is in a rental for 3 weeks. She drove home in freezing rain.

My 24 year old niece teaches 80 miles south of St. Louis, and her school was cancelled. The other two girls are still at college in Hannibal. Denise, the 22 year old works in Quincy, IL, and she spun out on the freeway and had to be rescued by a cop who put down salt so she could drive out. The whole state was declared a state of emergency yesterday. Dad is in the KCK area, but it is the same there.

It seems we got in between the snow storm and the ice storm in ORD, so we were lucky in that sense.

It was 80 here today with near record highs, but by no name, it will have dropped 5 to 10 degrees a day into the upper 50s. I am nervous now about same day travels for no-name. I know better but just knew I wasn't going to want another full day trek somewhere.

I slept from 12:30 to 6:30 this afternoon, so obviously my body does not know what time it is. I am hoping I will be tired enough to go back to bed later and cure my Indianitis

Kristin, I hope you made better arrangements for your Gaugin travels. I was thinking about you quite a bit.