Welcome to Chicago!

Unfortunately, I'm not finding my camera card reader at the moment, and am between conference sessions, so this'll be brief and image-less.

Got into Chicago just fine yesterday. Got to the shuttle system and then over to the hotel. Really nice hotel room! Taking advantage of the per diem food allowance offered by work and have gotten room service. Was STUFFED after dinner and dessert last nite. Got some reading in, and missed most of Idol due to the time difference, phone calls and room service.

Lunch today was a bit of a mess - the hotel's not making what their lunch description says....at least they tried pushing more food (no thanks), dessert (really, no thanks) and finally a 20% discount (ok, fine) on me.

After today's last session I'll be rushing out to take the hotel shuttle service back to the airport, and from there I'll get on the "blue line" to meet Peter somewhere for dinner. We haven't settled on that yet.

Planning on trying authentic Chicago-style pizza with Brett when he arrives tomorrow evening. Sounds like it's really not Peter's thing, so we can totally get something that Brett wouldn't like tonite, and then tomorrow night Brett and I can eat the kind of stuff Peter doesn't like. (Oh these picky eaters!) ;-)

Ok, gotta run... Will try to get some pics posted tonite or tomorrow!