To be fair

They just gave us free lunch. A tiny portion of rice with beef stew. And for Johannes only stew, cause they were out if rice by the time he came (5 minutes later than myself):)))

I already read my book. Good that we have laptop, can watch movies:)

The mood in the train is only getting better. Nobody is complaining, people are polite and friendly. I am very surprised.

We have just had a 5 minutes stop on Lincoln, NE. 12 hours behind the schedule.

Funny thing is that when I write about this to our airbnb host he wrote back "is that going to affect the time of your check-in"? I couldn't think about answering anything apart from "we won't be able to check-in before our arrival to Chicago".

Finally he told he would leave the key to security guy and we can get in anytime, even during the night. Security in the house - sounds promising.