Chicago: Day 1

Well, its Monday morning and we're waiting for Jake to finish getting ready, again.  Inc left Maryland yesterday around 6am and took the 12/13 hour car trip to Chicago.  Couldn't get a twelve person van so we traveled in a 7 person van and Aaron's car, switching off car combinations throughout the trip.  Got to Chicago around 6, checked into the hotel and then went to iO theatre.  Met a Jewish guy with a fro and huge mutton-chops along the way who took a particular liking to Lee.  At iO, we watched Grasshopper, a show that included various level 5 iO students and two iO performers, TJ and another guy that was also real good.  After that show we watched Children of a Lesser God, featuring Emily Candini, Kate Duffy, Rachael Mason, and Susan Messing, who we are taking a workshop with later this week.  We blew our loads to it.  Later on, we hung out in the hotel and some of us went to Clarke's diner and met with an inc. alum, Peyton who was in the group with Jake and Aaron before the rest of the group got in.  Looking forward to today....No workshops, but we'll see what we do.