Unfortunately, I had to leave a family Christmas party early to catch the bus to Chicago from Madison. All this because neither my parents nor my friend's parents were willing to drive us to O'Hare for our 6:00am flight. Kind of understandable in retrospect. This course of action, however, did leave us with almost eight hours to kill in the airport.
Had we been able to get our bags checked and get on to the concourse things probably wouldn't have been so bad, but we were told we couldn't check any bags until 4am the next morning. Not looking forward to spending the night in the boring part of the airport we tried to make conversation with the staff at the American Airlines desk. They recommended we head downtown to the bars, but we didn't really have any place to leave our bags. One good thing did come out of the conversation in that we were able to switch our randomly assigned seats out for aisle seats in exit rows to ensure enough leg room. Apparently the airline staff is much more accommodating when they're about to close up for the night and feel sorry for a couple of college guys stuck in the airport overnight.
Boarding passes taken care of we set off wandering the airport to try to find something to do to pass the time. We end up wandering over to the airport Hilton and sitting in their sports bar for a drink. A drink that would cost me $8, or rather enough money to live a day in Peru. Sad.
Beer finished, passport copies made, and boredom setting in we return to the terminal and grab some seats in the handicapped area and try to grab at least a nap before our flight.
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