In the STL

I made it to St. Louis.

Me and my day made it on this amazing, awesome, crazy, stressful trip out to St. Louis. After 2 standby flights, a 40 min taxi drive through rush hour traffic in Dallas and another flight that we almost missed we made it to St. Louis and man is it hot here. 75 Degrees in Portland to high 90's and low 100's is quite the change. It reminds me of living in Arizona. You just rush from one air conditioned shell to the next.

My cell phone is almost out of batteries and I'm trying to organize the trip back. In my hast I packed everything I might need except for a cell charger. It's sitting on my desk at work. One of the hassles about refusing to upgrade your phone is that all the chargers at any of the airport stores are too new. My Dad and I have been searching every convenience store and fake radio shack in all of the 34 airports we've been in for a charger. So far no luck. If I don't find one soon I'm going to be forced to make 1-800 calls to the airlines from a pay phone :(

We took the mass transit from the air port to the Washington University Medical center. The ticket dispenser to ride mass transit doesn't take credit cards and only 1's, 5's and 10's. Of course we only have 20's so Dad walks back to the airport to get some change while I sit in the shade watching all of our stuff. He gets back just as the train is leaving so we get to wait for the next one.

The mass transit is like a cheaper version of the MAX. I never thought I'd say this but, MAX, I miss your comfortable seats, nice bright yellow rails, folding benches and automated stop announcements.

We got to the medical center and checked in at about 10am. The appointment is at 1pm but we don't have a lot to do and thought, what the hell lets just go there see whats up. I left my bag there and we went to the mall to try to find a cell phone charger so it was back on the train and the a nice 15 min walk through the hot sun to the mall.

Even the Verizon store didn't have a charger for my phone are you kidding me? He recommends the Target or Office Max 4 miles down the road. Of course we don't have a way to there.

Frustrated and ready to give up we walk through the mall to find something to eat. Walking past one of those "customize my phone with crazy covers and random bling" cart in the middle of the mall places I decide to stop and ask the guy if he knows where I can get a charger. I show him the phone and he pulls out his phone which is identical the opens a drawer and, bamm there is the mythical phone charger I've been searching for high and low over the last 36 hours.

I'm back at Dr. MacKinnon's office now charging my phone and waiting to see her.