As we were in no hurry today, we didn't rush up but when we did go down for breakfast it was a bit of a scrummage as the breakfast room was very busy. On the plus side, the cinnamon buns were very good! After breakfast, I looked out of the window and saw that it was snowing.
Clearly Chicago had had a lot of snow because every carpark had huge mounts of snow heaped up by the snowploughs, we could also see that the lake was still mainly frozen. Apparently, it is very unusual for the lake to be like this so late in the year.
After breakfast we investigated the transport options for visiting the Rosemont Fashion Outlet Center. We could have caught a free shuttle back to the airport and then taken the train, but it would have cost $10 to get there and taken about 30 minutes. We opted for to take a taxi which cost us $15 (including tip) each way.
The shopping centre (previous spelling deliberate) is fairly newly opened and has many fashion shops with discounted clothes. More importantly, it was warm inside whilst it was cold and snowy outside. We wandered around and bought a few bits and pieces, two pairs of jeans for me. After that, we had lunch in the food court and caught a taxi back to the hotel.
We'd arranged a late check-out from the hotel, so we returned to the room and repacked our bags and had a quick refresh before checking out of the room.
We caught the free shuttle back to O'Hare Airport and checked our bags in. We both had 'TSA approved' boarding passes so we didn't have to remove shoes or belts to get through security.
O'Hare Airport is huge!. We had a wander around and then headed out for the area where our flight was due to depart from and found somewhere to sit whilst we waited to board. The flight boarded on time and was pretty much full, but we had already got seats assigned toward the rear of the aircraft. The airport was busy and we taxied for a while and took off a few minutes late.
The flight took us up towards Toronto, which we could clearly see, and on to Montreal before heading up the St Lawrence Seaway, across Nova Scotia and finally across Newfoundland. Our flight time was just over 7 hours, but we got stuck in a queue waiting to land at Heathrow.
We arrived at Heathrow at around 07.30 and had collected the car by 08.30 and headed back to Lincoln where we arrived at around 11.15.
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