It’s been a long time since I’ve added a post so I figured I could give a summary of what’s happened since my last one.<\/p>\n
My last post was about the birth of my first granddaughter Eloise (Ellie) Weiss. \u00c2\u00a0Betty and I flew out to Wisconsin in January to spend a little over a week with them. \u00c2\u00a0I had wanted to spend some time there since we don’t get to see Jocelyn and Eric that often.<\/p>\n
We flew out at the end of December on American Airlines. \u00c2\u00a0One of my presents to Betty was going First Class. \u00c2\u00a0I had us on a 767 that had the lie down seats in FC so it was going to be quite an adventure. \u00c2\u00a0Unfortunately that plane had some problems so we were forced to get on a smaller plane but at least she still got to experience FC service.<\/p>\n
I had decided to fly into O’Hare because the price was better if you were going FC. \u00c2\u00a0It was a mistake on my part as I didn’t think about how much air traffic would be using the airport in the middle of winter. \u00c2\u00a0Chicago had a blizzard on our way there and it caused lots of delays which caused lots of planes to stay at the gates which meant there was no place for our plane to go once it landed. \u00c2\u00a0We were stuck on the runway area for 1 1\/2 hours. \u00c2\u00a0Really glad we were in FC then.<\/p>\n
The trip to Racine took about an hour once we got out of the airport.<\/p>\n
We stayed at a hotel I had found when I went out in 2014. \u00c2\u00a0It was a small place but the price was good and it was fairly clean. \u00c2\u00a0It was also only about 2 miles from Joce.<\/p>\n
There was snow on the ground and it did snow a few times. \u00c2\u00a0Having grown up in Tucson and living the last 29 years in LA I don’t get to see much snow. \u00c2\u00a0It was very nice and I’m glad we didn’t get snowed in.<\/p>\n
Michelle and Josh joined us a day or so later and we went to Milwaukee to meet them for dinner. \u00c2\u00a0They had problems with getting their car but eventually we met and had dinner.<\/p>\n
The next few days we went various places and did family things. \u00c2\u00a0Then Michelle and Josh had to go home.<\/p>\n
We stayed a few more days and had a great time not feeling rushed. \u00c2\u00a0One thing I had wanted to do was take a tour of a cheese making factory. \u00c2\u00a0There was supposed to be one not too far from Joce but it wasn’t open while we were there. \u00c2\u00a0We didn’t get to see any but we did get all the curds and cheese we wanted from the world famous Mars Cheese Castle where the owner is good friends with Joce and Eric.<\/p>\n
When we flew home it was uneventful but we felt we had a great vacation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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