Awake 7:42 am Temp 14 Overnight West Lafayette, Indiana
Kathy & I eat breakfast in our hotel. When I went to pay the bill, the
lady had only charged us for one meal. I brought this to her attention &
she said: "today's your lucky day!" Well, that's a good start for this
day's travel. We check out of the Hilton, sit by their fireplace & wait
for our pickup. It's been a nice hotel for us, very convenient for short
travel to the Purdue Campus, Zack's studio apt & graduation activities.
Our boys pick us up @ 11:15 am. We meet with Katie 1/4 mile up the road &
she follows us in her Camaro on I-65 to I-80 toward the Chicago suburbs.
As we are nearing her area she takes the lead and soon pulls into the
Bouna Beef Restaurant in Downers Grove, Illinois. We get a take out order
of Italian Beef, sweet peppers, beef juice & french bread, then continues
on to her parents' home. Travel time from Purdue to Katie's home was 2 hrs
40 min.
Katie & her parents live in a beautiful 2 story home with a finished
gameroom basement in a nice quiet suburb. Her mother, Ruth, welcomes us @
the door & provides us with the necessary cookware so we can heat & eat
our delicious Italian beef sandwich...Kathy's favorite & mine too.
Zack leaves his kitties & his Camry here during his travel time in Alaska
with us. Katie's dad comes home from work early to visit & later, provide
a ride to the O'Hare airport. He also shows us his 1970 souped up Chevy
Malibu toy that he & a friend had rebuilt from the ground up.
About 4:10 pm Chuck drives us around the local traffic snares & gets us to
the airport in plenty of time for our 6:00 flt to SEA then ANC.
Flight time ORD to SEA= 4 hrs 15 min SEA to ANC= 4 hrs 25 min.
Strong jet stream winds increase our flt time en route. 125 mile per hour
average head winds en route to Anchorage.
We arrive in Anchorage @ 1:35 am Tuesday morning. Then wait in the new
Alaska Airlines terminal for Katrina's arrival. She spent last night in
Cincinnati, Ohio with Kevin's relatives after her Int'l flt from Florence,
Italy.
Her arrival time was 2:35 am. She is happy to see us and that all her flts
have worked just fine to be home for the holidays. For whatever reason,
her luggage was slow in coming but it eventually all showed up. So the 5
of us & all our luggage head for home in our RAV 4. It was a good trip.
We sit in our living room for awhile & we all talk with Katrina about her
final days in Florence & return trip here to Alaska.
We are tired.... Lights out: 4:52 am
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