This is a cut-and-paste, as we're about to go to dinner, longer stuff later on.
Ok, here's the MUCH longer story.
Yesterday, we got to O'hare long before the snow. And as we waited for our plane the conditions took a very poor turn. They stopped all landings at O'hare at 4-something. I wish they had done the same at Midway.
We got by as our plane was already on the ground before the snow came in at all. Approximately 2 hours late we do finally take off ok and have a smooth flight.
We arrive here pick up our car and arrive at the DL Hotel. Now it's about 11:00pm, our internal clock is still on midwest time at 1am. We get up to our room,unpack and the fun begins. First of all, the internet connection is across the room from the desk. Oh, fun. The rest of the room layout is a little odd, but we get settled for the night until oh, 1am local, when the people in the next room decide to start up a wild party. Ok, this goes on for a bit, Mary goes out and tries to talk to them, they pointedly ignore the door. Ok, pick up the phone to call security only to discover it's dead. totally. push the buttons that should light up, nada. Ok, go down to front desk and read them the riot act. OK, they'll send up security and someone to fix the phone. Security shows up and we can hear the overloud people saying "its security- should we answer it?" Duh, they're gonna open the door anyhow if you don't, dummies. So it does go quiet for a bit and we do doze off,but it does continue at a subdued rate, but when the choice is to get dressed and go down again at 2am or just try to sleep thru we decide to get this straightened up in the later morning. We are so tired now nothing short of a nuclear blast was going to wake us once we finally dozed off.
Needless to say we are now in a different room altogether, this room is perfectly fine. This day has gone much nicer, we have met up with two friends, Cheryl & Todd and had a fun am in the park. We'll write a real trip report on that someplace and link it tonight, after the fantasmic buffet.
That was reassuring!
I'm glad we booked when we did!! 
This deserves a happy dance!!! 
