We planned on going to Chicago the night before we left. There was a lot of uncertainty prior to us leaving. We really didn’t have any plans set but we knew we were going to be gone for two months. We could have never imagined we would have ended up where we did and experienced what we experienced. The night before we flew out the original plan was to get a hotel room that evening and shuttle in to the airport. We gave our car to Emily’s sister who lives in Chicago so we did not have to pay for parking! The problem with our plan was that we did a midwest goodbye with our friends and didn’t leave our house until close to 11pm! Emily will need to do a packing list post on what we brought for our trip but I think it consisted of 4 outfits for each person. We are 3 hours away from Ohare. We had a 5:30 am flight. We booked the hotel but I dont know if we spent 10 minutes there. We were all running on fumes.
