USBC Queens

Manchester - Chicago O Hare

Early start this morning with my alarm set for 6am, and after not getting to sleep until 2am, I was feeling a little lot tired! I finished my packing at a reasonable time last night (about 11pm) but I was way too excited to sleep!

Mum brought me tothe airport, we left home at 7am and arrived at the airport at about 9.....a journey that should take an hour! Stoopid traffic! I flew with American Airlines and they were brilliant with me through check in, the weigh belts were broken so I got away with no excess charges - Happy Days!

The flight to chicago was pretty good, I managed to catch up on my sleep from last night so I feel happy now :o) The whole 7 1/2 hours consisted of me sleeping, waking up to eat, sleeping, waking up to eat and watch a movie!!! The plane was lovely, I think I must be getting used to it! We had chicken tortellini and then pizza later on - Yummy :o) he movie was pretty good too, The Freedom Writers - I reccomend!

The weather was warm landing in Chicago but really windy which made the landing uncomfortable - true what they say about the windy city though!!

All my bags arrived which is always a relief and after a funny experience in customs they were sent onto the next flight! The customs people seemed to pay a lot of interest to me, I thought it was cos I was carrying bowling balls. They were firing loads of questions about my equipment, my shoes, my average, leagues & tournament I play etc. The guy said to me wait there....I was waiting 10 minutes, panicing thinking they were ognna take my balls off me when he came back with 3 women and a guy with cameras. Turns out they are league bowlers who follow the big USBC Tournament, when searching the USBC Queens 08 on a search engine they'd picked up Talk Tenpin and read I was making the trip! I posed for a few photographs and signed some autographs and I was on my way with ALL my equipment! Weird...I don't even get recognised in my local centres!

I'm gonna be here in Chicago airport until 5.10 local time when I transfer to Detroit! The airport is huuuuuge, had to get on a monorail to get to the transfer terminal! Happy I found a Starbucks though and a comfy chair for me to pass time on the tinterweb :o)

Gonnna get going now, will write again from Detroit!

JoJo xox