A brief update

Hey there, we're in Washington DC now. We spent a nice couple of days in Chicago (my home town), and did get to Giordano's for some deep dish pizza. We also walked on the Magnificent mile a few times, took an architectural boat tour on the Chicago River, walked through Millenium and Grant Parks, hopped on the metra to Hyde Park (my old stomping grounds) and got up to Lincoln Park Zoo. The Capitol Limited to DC was delayed just out of Chicago because of tornados on the track, that apparently knocked over part of a freight train about 10 miles ahead of us! In all, we were delayed further by freight traffic, and got into DC about 10 hours late! Anyways, we're here now, staying with Sean and about to go to the Air and Space Museum... more on all of the above and our DC adventures later...