Tuesday,
11 Sep 2018
– After returning from Idaho and spending the night at Derek & Gina’s
house, we awoke at about 8:00 AM. After breakfast,
we packed up and headed for the airport in our rental car. We stopped for a gasoline fill up before
returning the rental car; then took a shuttle to the airport.
We arrived at the Seattle airport in plenty
of time for our 1:55 PM flight to Chicago.
The airport was extremely automated and we had trouble figuring out
where and how to check in, until airline personnel assisted us. The flight was almost an hour late taking
off. Since we had only a short layover
in Chicago, we were concerned that we might not make our next flight. Our seats were very near the back of the
plane. Although we had intended to
purchase dinner on the plane, by the time the flight attendant made it back to
us, she was completely out of everything!
Unlike our flight to Fairbanks three weeks earlier, we did have small TV
screens this time; however, we chose not to purchase movies or TV shows and
settled for the complimentary broadcasts.
Jesse did manage to do a little work on his laptop, but not without
difficulty due to the very limited space.
We made it to our gate in Chicago in plenty
of time. Jesse walked a little distance from
our gate to McDonalds and purchased chicken sandwiches and milkshakes –
otherwise, we would have had no food after breakfast in Seattle! The airline attendant at the gate was very
personable. A big fan of the Cubs and
the Bears, his antics made time pass a lot faster as we waited for out flight
to depart.
We landed in Peoria at about 9:30 PM and were
home an hour later. This concludes another wonderful cruise!
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