An unexpected night in Chicago

Well, we thought that we should take a picture of a plane taking off because it definitely wasn't happening for us. United provided us with a hotel to sleep and we had a great time talking to the many different people on our flight; it almost felt like a family unit as we all tried to figure out what was happening and when we would finally be on our way to Brasil!

Karen had fun entertaining children of the many single mothers going to Brasil for summer visits with family while Brian was attempting to advocate for the many people stuck in the airport without much understanding of the language or the happenings.

We had plenty of time to take pictures of the airport.

The children were funny and it was neat to meet Ben's brother traveling to visit with his wife and two other missionary families.


One of the worst things about the whole delay was that it wasn't actually our plane that was broken and the cause of the delay. Our plane was actually just fine and was plane-knapped by a French group traveling to Paris and they left us with their broken plane. So, first France boots Brasil from the World Cup and then they steal our plane... Such was the joke in our group of travellers.