1) Well if you are the parents of your toddler friend, I can say you will for sure. My back pocket, but unused, approach was to buy a fully refundable one way ticket to ORD.

2) We think so, but we are biased, being her parents and all.

3) Yeap! The publicly announced arrival time was 10:30. Not sure when he actually arrived. We did see two Airforce Cargo planes at the Air National Guard base that were most definitely not there on Saturday (we had had a b-day party for Toddlercellisttoo at the Air National Guard Museum). My guess is that his car flies AF cargo- do they have a mileage program?