Orange Alert

The nice woman's voice on the intercom at the airport says we are at orange alert. I followed instructions and got here 4 hours early. No lines. No problems. Just 4 hours to kill.

It's a pretty nice airport. Free Wi-Fi and lots of expensive food and drinks. I would probably be home by now if I drove instead of flying, but Frontier Airlines' prices were way cheaper than gas.

The city did a pretty good job this week of running this massive convention. I've talked about the green efforts. There were always helpful people standing on almost every corner to give you advice and directions. The locals were really nice too.

The light rail didn't run late enough for the late night partiers, but I didn't have any trouble getting around. My only real complaint is that we had to stay so far away from the convention. You really had to schedule about 2 hours to get anywhere and we missed a lot of events because of travel. Someone said if we carry Missouri for Obama this election cycle, we will get a better hotel location in 2012. Someone else said they just choose state names out of a hat and it's the luck of the draw. I'd say it's worth it for those of you who want to come in 2012 to go ahead and work hard for Obama this fall on the off chance that you'll have sweet digs next time. Whatever motivates you!