One of the best things about being here in Guyana is the friends that we’ve made. This blog is a story about our friends from Chicago, Nick and Meg.
Nick is a Chicago Bears season ticket holder and would go to every game with one of his brothers. When he left home for Guyana, his other brother took over his ticket and Nick had to follow his team by either talking a bartender into finding the game on the satellite, or by listening online at an internet café. Last Sunday the Bears made it one step closer to the Superbowl and this sent Meg into action.
Monday morning found Meg writing her old colleagues and friends, just to see if it was even possible to find Nick a ticket to the next game (which will determine if the Bears are in the Superbowl or not). Tuesday morning she got her answer. Her old boss had come through and a ticket had materialized. As Meg frantically booked Nick a flight home she received another email from her friend at the Chicago Sun-Times. Not only would Nick be going to the game, but the newspaper was interested in writing a little story about him in Friday’s paper.
With everything booked and ready to go she waited until Wednesday night to tell Nick that he wouldn’t be going to work on Friday or Monday. Instead he would be flying home to spend the weekend with his family and go to the big game with his 2 brothers. She was going to wait until Thursday night to tell him, but he had a phone interview to do for the Chicago Sun-Times so she thought he should be prepared.
Last night Nick found out that another volunteer, Blake, had used his airline points to upgrade his American flights to first class. Could it get any better?
This morning at 2:00 am, Nick, who probably wasn’t sleeping anyway, got up and headed to the Georgetown airport. I can picture him right now in his recliner, sipping his champagne, enjoying the feel of his airline slippers and wondering just how the hell he’s going to repay his wife. It’s at this time the flight attendant will slip him a copy of this morning’s Chicago Sun-Times to look at. Staring back at him on the front page will be the headline, “Wife of the Year,” and a picture they took in their backyard only yesterday.
To read the news article, click here
To watch the NBC5 news broadcast, click here