So may aswell do a blog post from Chicago while I'm here, sure it would be rude not to :) But I must warn you all, this is again mostly a rant, as we are now into day 33 of our 30 days in America! However, this rant comes with a happy ending! :)
After Sundays commotions we were so very happy to finally be on our way home! Everything seemed to be going well except for a one hour delay with the Aer Lingus flight but that was kind of in our favour as we weren't rushing through Chicago airport like we imagined we would have been! At about 7.45 we were advised that there was a delay with the flight and we would get updated every 20mins, that's never good! Just after 8 the plane was being checked and cleaned, and it was still being checked and cleaned 2 hours later, until they finally told us that the flight was cancelled due to maintenance and we are all scheduled on tomorrow's flight instead. They gave us a $10.00 meal voucher each and told us to wait for the shuttle bus for the Holiday Inn, we managed to miss this shuttle as we had nappies to change! However maybe Lady Luck was secretly on our side again as people came back from the Holiday Inn fuming as there were no rooms available!! :-O
Aer Lingus then advised many of the travellers that they were going to put them up in a different Holiday Inn....an hour away!?? That didn't go down too well!!
We were one of the lucky few that were given the Hilton as our second option, no turning our noses up at that! :-D
On the shuttle we met two very nice gentlemen, one was part of the Aer Lingus debacle and the other was probably the nicest stranger we have ever come across in our 27 years! When we got to the Hilton this man was ahead of us in the queue and asked the guy at the front desk to give us his loyalty points to upgrade our room to the nicest one, which was a Presidential Suite!! :-O
Our travel nightmare has actually turned into one of the nicest memories :)
Chicago wasn't so bad to get stuck in after all! :)
The picture may not look like much.... But if you look really closely past all the fog/smog you'll see the Chicago skyline :)
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