Just a quick hello to let you know how fortunate I am: first of all, usually, we fly through Denver to get to Chicago and this time we flew through Dallas, so yay for that. Second, I misread our flight out of Santa Barbara as 6:50am instead of 6:05am, which I realized at 5:45am. We somehow made our flight thanks to everyone else making the same mistake (sort of -- American Airlines had changed the schedule but didn't tell all the people who had bought their tickets in March like us...they did email me, but shh). After that, the four hour layover (was supposed to be an hour) in Dallas wasn't quite so bad.
Anyway. Chicago. Yeah.