Old World Underground

I sent Ben home today. It definitely was not the most fun thing in the world. A note about the Detroit airport (airport code DTW) is that it is gigantic. Driving by from the interstate, you don't realize how ginormous it is. However, once you get to the complex, you have three choices of terminals, so you have to quickly look at the signs to figure out where your airline flies. The great thing about DTW is that it's only about 25 minutes away from my apartment, despite the fact that it seems like it should be much farther, AND there wasn't much traffic on the way there or home, despite it being what I would think of as "rush hour."

Sending Ben home was strange because of the brevity of the airport goodbye, since other cars want to get in to drop people off. I got a phone call from him when I was arriving back in A2 to say a more extended goodbye, and another phone call an hour later to say that his plane was delayed enough that they're now sending him on a direct flight to MSP because he would have missed his connection in Chicago, but the catch is that he had to sit around and wait until 10:30 pm. So, lucky Ben is still sitting at the airport now, hours after his plane was originally scheduled to leave.

Aside from taking Ben to the airport, the day has been pretty laid back. Kellie and I hung out around our apartment all day. The rain rolled in pretty hard around 8-ish and we sat around talking about politics and school and telling stories while watching the lightening and flash flood-like conditions. We've just now ordered pizza, at close to 10:00 pm.

The most exciting thing today: our internet is up and running finally! It was supposed to be working on Monday and I spent hours on the phone with Comcast over the week trying to get it working. Finally, Kellie called and yelled at them and they promised it'd be working by midnight. About 15 minutes after she got off the phone with them, I checked to see if it was up, and, voila!