Off to Paris

We were packed and ready for our trip to Paris, our friend was on her way to our house to take us to the airport, and Bob was doing one last pass on e-mail.  What???  Our flight from Champaign to Chicago had been cancelled and was not being rescheduled?  This had never happened before.  Turns out there was too much traffic at O'Hare.  Bob tried everything, including several different airline reps, to find us another flight from here to meet our 5:00 p.m. flight to Paris, but it was a no go, and there wasn't enough time to drive there.   The final result?  We would leave on a flight early the next morning (if it was again a no go, we had time to drive to Chicago), connecting to another 5:00 p.m. flight to Paris.  Time for rest for the journey.