Wingate Inn Tinley Park

... place was a mad house as it seemed like everyone from the town was in here eating dinner. Coming from Texas, it was a bit different for us to see that there were many groups of people eating at the same table with others that weren't with them. We are used to a big group eating at one table, but here it was typical to see four groups of people eating at a round table and not know each ...

... type service where I spent an hour on the phone with Gion Paolo and ordered our tickets (I hope!). Between his fairly impressive English and my halting Italian we got the job done(I hope!). We should be picking up our tickets on Saturday. Don't look for us on TV; we'll be in the "cheap seats." I am looking forward to practicing my Italian. We'll find out what I've absorbed in eight years of night school! My friends from class are very excited that I'm finally ...

... 8211; the Sears Tower – for an impressive view of Chicago & beyond but I opted against this, and went to the John Hancock Tower instead and visted the ...

Our goal for the day was Tinley Park to visit the Langes once again as we pass through the Chicago area. As we drove through Minnesota and Iowa we noticed the frequent use of alternative sources of power with the many wind farms which dot the landscape. These tall white windmills capture the wind as it blows across the plains. One thing on Fred's "to do ...

... life. So just for fun we ranked the cities that we spent more time in and the hostels while on the plane: City rankings: Me: Jeff: 1. Krakow Interlaken 2. Interlaken Venice 3. Venice ...

... and learn about are the wonderful public loos in the airports. They are all automatic, and have little seat liners that whizz around when you put your hand in front of a dial. Amazing!!! Then when you get up off the loo, it flushes, and you walk to the basin, where the soap comes out when you put your hand under it, and then the water turns on. Then ... if that all isn't good enough, you wave your hand in front of ...

After a flying with Virgin Atlantic from heathrow we had to connect here a Ohare to get to Omaha.

Wow the first experience of a delayed connecting flight due to weather conditions and AAirlines not flying we set here for hours waiting for the connection flight.

After a 30 - 40 minuiete walk accross from the international ...

... much, does it? But when you only get a few hours of sleep...it really, really is a lot. While John cheerfully bounded from his room to take his laptop to the Apple store for a repair, I downed many glasses of water, two ginormous extra-strength Tylenol...and four Thin Mint cookies. I snapped some photos of Navy Pier and the surrounding area...managed to shower....and chilled on the couch until he returned with some deliciously flaky chocolate croissants. Friends rule.

... part of the day" usually takes place. All of the preceding sessions had culminated into what I considered to be the two most important and eye-opening sessions of them all. The first was done by Scully Kruglik, the community organizer whom is mentioned in Barack Obama's books as being the mentor who trained the Senator on how to fulfill the role as an organizer. I found this most prolific because of the importance this man made on Senator Obama's life. The ...

... 4 heavy books plus 4 or 5 magazines we figured on purchasing them when we arrived in Florida. Stef also came up with a brilliant idea: why drag Ginny Craig food with us when we could purchase it down there? We did, where else but out in a suburb like Old Orchard. Malls, malls, malls, malls, malls, malls, malls, malls! Well, turned out that there were few book stores in St. Petersburg. The only good one we didn't learn about till a day before we left. It was a bit of a drive ...