It was a beautiful dawn when we started packing the car. Before we knew it, we were on the road (on time!). The drive to BUF was uneventful, though we were driving on vapors from Keuka to Canandaigua. Once we pulled into the station, I put in just enough gas for the drive to the airport, since we had purchased the “we’ll fill your tank” option at Hertz.
Not much further down the road, we saw a Dunkin Doughnuts so we pulled over for one last indulgence. The kids complained constantly about the quality of Dunkin Doughnuts, and about their rude and/or stupid employees, yet they pointed out every one we saw, and wanted to stop at every one. I can only conclude that secretly, they liked the place.
Dropping off our car and getting through security was easy – we had plenty of time left over to read and play cards. The flight to Chicago Midway was brief. We then had a couple of hours to kill there. Jeffrey and I discovered that the cheapest place to eat in concourse B was McDonalds. It took the girls much longer to come to the same conclusion. It’s too bad we ate there, there was a nice food court between the concourses.
We saw a P51 Mustang hanging from the ceiling as we entered concourse A. Pretty cool. Our next flight was a bit longer, and though not stated on our tickets, the plane landed in San Diego first before heading to San Jose. That would explain the six hour timeframe from Chicago.
Well, we landed, and only eight of us were continuing on to San Jose. The four of us grabbed the bulkhead seats in the front of the plane – a definite improvement! The last leg was nice and easy, and our stowed bags showed up first in baggage claim. It was not long before we were out the door and into Rosa’s car.
The evening was spent trying to stay awake until 11PM. Barbara and I did this by driving to Hayward to test out an elliptical machine, paying for it, then transporting it back to our house. Yeah, we now have a massively large machine that we can’t really afford, given that I have no income, but hey, we got it for half off the “low” sales price on Amazon. Now we’ll have to use it!