Your atypical Monday

This is Mike writing about this weeks not so normal Monday where Ali and I were suppose to meet Joe in Chicago late afternoon and go out to eat. You will soon see that due to weather/mechanical problems this day very quickly went array and our plans were completely shot. This being said we still had a great time and would do it all over again just to have dinner with joe.

5:15- Alarm goes off
5:20- Roll out of bed and shower/eat breakfast
6:00- Leave home to drive north on Interstate 57 and catch the Metra train at 6:38.
6:05- Discover Interstate 57 is closed due to heavy damage from Tornadoes.
6:06- PANIC, thinking I will miss my train.
6:07- Take a backway to the train through the country, make good time.
6:37- get on the train
6:38- train leaves
7:50- get a cup of coffee
7:55- sit at my desk and begin work for the week
11:00ish- Joe calls and says his plane is delayed
11:30- Joe says his plane is not taking off
12:00PM- we have a pow-wow and decide to meet anyway and eat later.
1:00- Joe still has not left
2:00- Joe still has not left
5:00- I get off work/meet Ali at the train station
5:02- Ali and I decide since we have a "couple" hours to burn we would just take the L (red line) up north, visit some shops and walk to the restaurant/brewery we were going to eat at.
5:15- get on the red line
5:16- decide public transportation is disgusting and overcrowded at rush hour
5:45- Ali wants to buy the entire store at Crate and Barrel
6:30- get coffee
7:00- slowly walk for about 10 blocks towards the restaurant
7:30- still no news from joe
7:45- HE LANDED
8:00- Joe gets his bags
8:15- Joe gets lost in the airport trying to find the Blue line
8:20- Joe gets on the Blue line
8:45- Blue line starts moving
9:00- Blue line breaks down
9:05- Ali and me start playing rummy on the curb of a busy Chicago street
9:06- People stare
9:10- more of the same
9:17- Ali wins
9:30- Ali wins again
9:40- Ali wins again
9:45- Joe gets off the Blue line and we UNITE!!!!!!!!!
9:50- get to the restaurant and eat pizza and enjoy the great flavors of a unique micro-brew.
10:30- remind everyone our train to get home leaves at 11:20 and there is not another one until 12:50
11:00- Full of pizza and some amazing beer we head towards the Blue line.
11:05- Joes train for O'Hare comes and he leaves
11:10- no blue line train for mike and ali
11:12- still no train
11:13- get on Blue line
11:19- realize we have missed our metra train for good.
11:22- run for the metra station to go pee
11:30- walk to subway for cookies
12:50AM- get on train
2:00- get off train, drive home on Interstate 57 as it is now open
2:30- get home
2:45- put my head on my pillow
5:15- my alarm goes off and I go to work
8:00- work starts and I am in an 8 hour long meeting on cost accounting and cost management
8:15- get a cup of coffee
10:00- get a cup of coffee
12:00- get food and a cup of coffee
2:00- get a cup of coffee
5:00- go home
7:45- WENT TO BED


This was an abnormal 48 hours but quite an adventure to say the least.