June 13: Another morning, about the same. Debbie and Delma are loading the car. Jean and I, as usual, just watching. Good trip, huh! Loaded and on the road. First stop, Walmart in Michigan. Next stop will be McDonald's and then away we go.
Debbie told Jean and I we could write a soap opera from watching people. Oh, Delma, right again. Guess about what? We are going to visit Notre Dame. Exciting! Debbie and Delma are walking around to take pictures. Too much walking for us old folks. The University is beautiful and the stadium is also. Wish we had the money it would take to attend this school. Stopped for lunch at Hardee's on interstate. Funny thing happened that we won't always tell.
Made it to Chicago. Took a nice tour of the city and saw lots of sites. Leaving Chicago; traffic everywhere. Maybe get to Iowa and get us motel for the night. We will all be ready again tonight.
These states up here have toll roads everywhere! The most we paid was $9ish. The least so far was 80cents. No place to pull over so the battery operated cigarette is coming out. Stopping for gas at De Kalb, IL. Just 78 miles of gas left. It seems we are running closer and closer to empty. Motel time, so we will sign off.
Debbie's comments.
Our motel in Howe, IL, was just 2 miles from Michigan. So we decided we had to at least cross the state line (since we were so close). And guess what, there was another Walmart. Delma had bought a new pair of parachute style pants a couple of days ago and they were just too big. Mom and Aunt Carole gave her a hard time when she put them on....Aunt Carole said they would fit her. So, Delma went into Walmart, found a new pair of the same pants and changed in the bathroom. When she got close to the car, she threw the "large" pants through the car window and hit Aunt Carole, causing her to spill her coffee. That was screw up number 1 for the day:
Now on the road to Chicago. But, as usual, we saw a sign about something we just had to see. Notre Dame University. With took the exit for South Bend, IL and, once again, followed the Garmin instructions to the campus. Mom and Aunt Carole stayed in the car (throwing a 'pretend' fit).
Delma and I took the camera and off we went. We took LOTS of pictures, but we'll only share a few.
We stop at a Hardee's before getting into Chicago. Nothing noteworthy, but since were were all wearing our orange "jail" shirts from the Rockville Old Jail Inn, we had our picture taken.
Don't we look cute?
I do have to tell you a side note. When we got to Hardee's, Delma pulled into a parking spot. We had a car pull up on both sides of us, so we waited until those folks got out of their cars. When we were getting out, Mom asked Delma if she had turned her car off. Delma said, 'yes, Mom'. Well, when she tried to lock the car, it wouldn't lock. Delma thought Mom was standing too close to the car (and Mom has the 2nd key). Well, guess what, Delma did leave the car running; that's why it wouldn't lock. That was screw-up #2!! We got another big laugh out of that.
OK, now we are finally on the final stretch to Chicago. Wow! What a fantastic city it is. I won't even try to share a lot of pictures.....I took a total of 312 pictures today. Some of Notre Dame; the rest of Chicago. They have some fantastic buildings there. We took a double-decker bus tour of the city. It was wonderful.
But first, I had to snap a picture of Mom and Aunt Carole as we left the parking garage.
Delma and I thought they looked so cute holding hands as they were getting ready to take on the big city. I had called ahead and got the address of where to catch a double-decker bus tour (at the Navy Pier). When we were crossing the street heading for the Navy Pier, I ran ahead to take this picture.
Apparenty the sight of 4 women dressed in bright orange t-shirts crossing the street in a big hurry was a funny thing. The couple in the car behind Delma had to honk and wave at us. They were really laughing. We were too!!
We are now off on the bus tour. It's one of those hop-on/hop-off tours. We only got off of the bus at one stop....the Water Works stop. We went to the Hershey's stop for our "free" gift....a Hershey's bar. When we left the shop, Delma realized she had bird poop on her t-shirt.
I guess that is what happens when you ride on the top deck of a double-decker bus. While waiting at the bus stop to "hop" back on the bus. We asked a lady to take our picture. We had told her the story of Delma and the bird poop. She asked us which one of us had the 'poop' on their t-shirt. This picture was taken when we responded to the question.
We wrapped up the bus tour around 6:00pm. Back to the car...and out of Chicago we went. Mom and Aunt Carole had all they wanted of a BIG city.
We drove for a while and found a motel in De Kalb, IL. We're staying at the Best Western....nice motel. 3 women are asleep again as I wrap up this blog.
Tomorrow morning we head out again.
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