As we were having breakfast on the last day of the cruise, someone had to say "... and we haven't had any weather disasters!" This was in reference to tornadoes in Dallas, hurricanes in Jamaica, an unseasonable heat wave in Paris, and a canceled Mexico trip due to Wilma, etc. It just seems that our last several vacations have included some sort of significant weather event.
Fast forward 15 hours when we were getting ready to land in Chicago (after a very tight connection in London where we ran from one terminal to the other to catch our "closing" flight) and were told by the pilots that there was some heavy rain in Chicago and we were going to "circle" because the airport was backed up. We landed about 50 min. later and found that our final connection to Seattle was delayed 90 min. We grabbed a bit of dinner and settled in at our gate as we watched an amazing thunder and lightning storm hit the airport. About 30 minutes later, our flight was officially canceled.
After getting our flight re-booked for today, we got on the phone to find an hotel room. The cots that were strewn out on the L-Concourse would have constituted "camping," which we were not up for.
Now, what does all this have to do with Mrs. International 2007? Well, when we arrived at the hotel, we found that the majority of the rooms are booked out to contestants for the pageant. Needless to say, the chicken was star struck this morning as breakfast was spent with many tall women in evening gowns and wearing sashes.
