Sweet Home Chicago

One of the downsides of flying using airline specific miles is that your flight choices can be limited.  It's easy to get a seat from the US directly to the overseas destination but few seats for the domestic leg of the journey.  Fortunately (or unfortunately) my miles are with United and they offer lots of their overseas routes from Chicago.

When booking the tickets to the UK, the only connecting flights from Seattle were the redeye with a 11 hr layover or a flight with a super short connection.  Since we love visiting Chicago we took the redeye from Seattle, got a rental car and explored our favorite places and visited family in the area.   Breakfast at Walker brothers was always a treat when we were at school so we had to take the boys to experience it.  They were not impressed by the huge and fluffy Apple pancake but enjoyed their omelets and regular pancakes despite a 1 hour of sleep.

Afterwards we stopped by the Northwestern campus and walked around the backside between the buildinga and the lake.    Lots of new buildings I didn't recognize and the dorm I stayed at my freshman year was getting gutted/remodeled.  That dorm was one of the newest buildings when I stayed there.  I guess that was a long time ago.