We made fantastic time!! "Dad" & "Mom" got us to Chicago in record time - only 15 driving hours! Of course "Dad" is happy to say he did 8 of those hours...but "Mom" got the Friday traffic hour in Chicago so she gets extra credit for that! We have done 1,005 miles of our total trip.
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| The view of our hotel was great! |
We were so very excited to get to our hotel. We stayed past Downtown Chicago in the town of Wood Dale, IL at the Doubletree Hotel Chicago-Wood Dale/Itasca (1200 N. Mittal Blvd (630) 860-2900
http://www.doubletreehotels.com/ ). What a great treat when you check into a Doubletree, is the warm chocolate chip cookies that everyone receives! (Hello...I may continuously be in the same position but I
LOVE cookies...hello - family??) The entire staff at the front desk was so very helpful no matter what our questions were. They were super helpful with directions, where to get the trains, etc....High fives to the staff!! (Ok - boys can you help a fellow out here - hands are tied behind my back!!)
Time to explore the neighborhood for dinner.....and after driving around in the very bad rain storm ("Dad" just said he would love to see an EPIC storm while we are in the Midwest - ah, can we be careful for what we wish for???)......we ended up at Applebee's (Neighborhood Bar & Grill - see what I did there???).
http://www.applebees.com/ (111 E. Algonquin Rd, Arlington Hgts (847) 758-0094 ) Kathryn H. was our waitress and she was super! She was very accomodating to my "younger brother" because he was having a hard time making up his mind! She quickly eased that situation - good thing for Jeff - "Mom" may have not been happy!! Great food & service at Applebees.....and now time to rest our weary bodies...yeah, don't worry about me - I'll just stand over here on the table...
Night, Night.....
Jimmy
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