Whoever Said..
..it doesn't rain in Chicago, apparently no-one. It seems I may have made that up..I can say this much, it does rain in Chicago, and then some! When we arrived at Heathrow, we checked the luggage against the allowances, and had to rejig various cases to get them under the limits. Even going as far as leaving some stuff with Jan and Madeleine, to make sure the hand luggage was under the limit. The flight was uneventful, and the movies were pretty crappy. We arrived on Tuesday afternoon, picked up our rental car, and checked into our new home for at least the next month. It's a nice apartment, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, lounge/diner/kitchen arrangement, and a nice balcony. Unfortunately it's a little close to the train line, where the Metra runs by day and Lorraine tells me, freight trains, a gazillion miles long, pass at 3am. I of course, never hear them. The apartment complex is next door to a golf course and has several tennis courts, and my clubs and our rackets are st...
