4 hour trip to the airport (10 min away)

Leila Kuku, my Sudanese friend and visiting teaching partner invited me to come to the airport with her to pick up her mother.  Mom doesn't speak English and had traveled over 24 hours to get here. Sudan via Cairo.  Laila had her schedule and she didn't get off the plane!  I called the paging service and explained our situation.  She looked at the security cameras all over the airport and said there was no one who was in a wheel chair or looking Sudanese.

We looked at the luggage, no luggage for her.  I went to the airline counter and they could tell me she was scheduled for the next flight out on another airline. She had missed her flight. We left, dropped kids off to be tended and went back to the airport. $4 parking.

For the next flight, we were there early and waited at the point the passengers get out of security.  Laila had arranged a wheel chair for her so we were looking for a wheel chair.  No grandma.  We waited as she could be the last off but no grandma.  I went and again looked for her luggage and none for her.  I again called security and she looked, no grandma.  She gave me the O'Hare phone #, no help there. We found she for sure did make it through customs. The next step was to call the wheel chair pushers in  O'Hare. Just as I was getting ready to call...    
I had a security guard come to me and said the security gal found a woman sitting on the floor near the exit of the airport by the ticketing.  We went downstairs and there she was.  1 hour after the flight landed.   We are not sure what happened but with her not speaking English, she may have missed the wheel chair pushers altogether.    She made it and was reunited with her daughter, grandchildren and great grandchildren.  $6 parking.