Back to Mobile Via Chicago

Well we finally made it back to the boat. Thank GOD and thank Chantal and Germain for picking us up at the airport!

We left St-Catherine on November 19th and there were no issues in Buffalo despite the 6 feet of snow they had in some areas, the airport has barely a dusting of snow. 

Jim cleaning snow off  his car at Mom and Dad's  

However the cold temperatures necessitate some deicing and refueling that cause our flight to be delayed. We arrived in Chicago and ran to our connecting flight as quickly as we could, only to find our plane left about 3 minutes earlier. Tired and out of breath, we walked to the luggage claim to pick up our suitcase, Our luggage apparently runs a lot faster then we do, because it made the plane on time!

Riding the "L" Train

If you remember, we were really disappointed that we were too tall to go through Chicago river so this was our chance to check out Chicago (unintentionally). It was bitter cold in Chicago today, but Jim and I still braved the weather and took the "L" train to the downtown core to check out the Chicago river going through the downtown. We now know why the call it the Windy City and with only a couple of hours to tour and no gloves or hats, this was a rather short visit. Hopefully some day we get to see it when we are not shivering.

Chicago river Downtown

Chicago Architecture

Liane came through with a few pics of the whole gang for me to share as well so I will leave you with a few shots of the girl's weekend. Thank Li, really appreciate you sending all those pics to me....man that was fun!

The girls in the restaurant 

My sisters and Mom

So now we are back home and it is currently 15C. Tomorrow we will put away the winter coats for another month and get ready for the next leg of the trip. We leave for the Mobile Bay crossing on Saturday and then to the ICW we go. Night all.

Going to sleep with 3 of my sisters-in-law