Still having fun in Evanston + trip photos
So as we were riding home from the airport last night in the pouring rain, the taxi driver foolishly didn't say, "Yes" when Gailor said to him, "I'm just confirming: It's a $39 flat fee, right?"
Instead he said, "Plus the $4 airport tax and the tolls." The two of us do look like marks.
I knew he was in trouble when she said in her nicest voice, "That's funny. I thought 'flat fee' meant 'flat fee.'"
She may look like a sweet little thing, but he might as well have stepped on a cobra. I'm thinking to myself, Gailor, you've been traveling for 48 hours straight and who cares at this point?
I won't bore you with the details, except to say I began to wonder if he would make us get out halfway between O'Hare and Evanston in the rain and dark.
We ended up paying $39.
We woke up to a blizzard this morning, but now things are looking up after doing two loads of laundry. Look at the fun to-do list we are in the middle of today: ...
1) Get a manicure/pedicure.
2) Find a nice place for brunch.
3) Have a massage.
3) Drive to Passport Health to get the pills to treat schistosomiasis, as a precaution after falling in the Nile on a class 5 rapids whitewater rafting trip (and here I thought it was Global Immersion in Management), so the worms don't lodge in her liver and destroy it.
One Thing You Never Want to Hear Your Daughter Say as She's Sorting Through Her Laundry: "I wonder why this shirt has so much blood on it."
(Photos of "cow things" and offending marabou stork by Gailor. Well, my other choice was a photo of our brunch today at La Peep.)
Comments
Those are gorgeous looking cows.
You don't want to mess with schistosomiasis, but isn't Uganda a tad far north for it?
(My spell checker is asking if I don't mean sadomasochists, rather than schistosomiasis.)
Posted by: Lissa | March 29, 2009 4:55 PM
When I was a cabbie in Boston, flat rate meant flat rate plus all tolls. Taxes were included.
Posted by: Lissa | March 29, 2009 5:08 PM
I know someone who claims to have gotten schistosomiasis from falling into the Patapsco. But, that was years ago and I don't know if it's really possible.
How was brunch?
Posted by: Joyce W. | March 29, 2009 5:40 PM
I got herpes from falling into the Patapsico
Posted by: Anonymous | March 29, 2009 9:41 PM
Do I dare ask about what is served at Le Peep? Certainly not #2 on your "won't eat" list?
Posted by: Retired in Elkridge | March 29, 2009 10:15 PM
Wow...those are some horny cows. (OK, somebody had to say it, and I gave jl an entire day to be first.)
The Nile has class 5 whitewater? I always think of the Nile in terms of Cleopatra and her barge.
Posted by: Bucky | March 30, 2009 9:23 AM
'I wonder why this shirt has so much blood on it"
Do I still have a hole dug in Leakin Park?
Posted by: RayRay | March 30, 2009 10:01 AM