Today we flew off to Chicago for the start of our hols. It starts with a week here before we fly down to New Orleans to meet Louise.


It was an uneventful flight until we felt the plane start to turn about an hour from Chicago and the captain said we were going to land in Toronto instead.They had smoke in the air traffic control centre, so had to close both O'Hare and Midway airports. Then, we kept on turning as the authorities discovered what was causing this and it was safe for us to land at O'Hare, so we were back on track and landed only a few minutes late. Phew! We did not want to have to hang around in Toronto until we could go on to Chicago after crossing the Atlantic. So we are in Chicago and  at our very modern Tablet Hotel, Dana Hotel and Spa.
We went up to the 26th floor bar, Vertigo, and endured one drink in their trendy bar, but it was deafening - the music so loud we were reeling from the noise! Then we for dinner in their ground floor restaurant, Freestyle, before collapsing into bed. Dinner was sushi and a shrimp salad - nice and light and peaceful!


Dana Hotel and Spa