Dallas Fort Worth Airport

Well, I send this from Dallas Fort Worth Airport where I am experiencing delays but have been able to rent a laptop for $6.95 an hour! Bargain! So, I left you in Chicago saying how nice the weather had turned out. Boy did I speak too soon! That afternoon it started raining and then it stopped for a while and so I decided to go out for a coffee. Oh my, did I time it wrong or what. Got my coffee and then afterwards decided to go for a mooch round the shops as I hadn't been round by the hostel and then the heavens opened! I'm not normally scared of storms but the thunder was so loud that it frightened the life out of me! Waited underneath a shop overhang for half an hour for it to die down but of course it didn't and so I got extremely wet walking back to the hostel!! Never mind. Dried off and then the next day headed off to Minneapolis. I ended up having to get a bus. Disastrous! They told me to get there by noon as they would be sending an express bus to Minneapolis at midday, 1pm etc but although I got on a bus round about midday, it didn't leave until 2.15pm and by the time we got to Minneapolis it was 10.15pm!! Fortunately got chatting to a nice guy called Rick who was sitting behind me so we had a really fun chat and whilst I wouldn't say time flew, it definitely felt a lot faster than it was!
In Minneapolis I stayed with my friend Sue and had a really lovely time. On the Saturday we went to the Minnesota State Fair and ate lots of things that are bad for you such as cheese curds, snow cones and sweet Martha's cookies. Then I became famous! I got interviewed on live TV because I was the person they could find who had travelled the farthest to go to State Fair so I was live on the news!! On the Sunday Sue and I went to Church and then just mooched for the day. On the Monday we went to Sue's parent's farm in Wisconsin and we had a great visit with her parents. Made all the more exciting for my influence on the weather! There was due to be a storm in the region but it should have split and gone north and south of us and so because I was there when Sue's folks severe weather alert system in their house went off in the middle of the night we ended up having to go down to the basement at 2am to avoid the storm!! Fortunately no major damage was done although Sue's car now has lots of little dents in it from the hail! Tuesday we came back to the Twin Cities and then Tuesday went out with my friend Karen to Caribou coffee and then to Famous Dave's BBQ! Delish!!
Today I've had a great flight down to Dallas but unfortunately there is a problem with the flight up to Vancouver and so I should have left at 4.40pm but it's currently 6.40pm and they say we won't be leaving til at least 7.17pm. Something to do with holding patterns and our plane having to land somewhere else. Hey ho! Hopefully get there today at some point!