Today was so much better. We slept for about 12hrs and both felt so much better for it. I had cold pizza for breakfast and then we got a taxi back to the rental company for the second attempt at getting our car. A slightly vital part of this trip! The taxi driver was lovely. He was very chatty, telling us all about Chicago and America. He had a crazy 7 month old chihuahua as a co driver. Apparently this chihuahua comes to work with him every day, gets fussed by ...

Originally our plane was meant to leave at 7:50 today but Andy wasn't feeling great at all and we ended up having to call the paramedic at Heathrow to see him. Paramedic checked him over and concluded that he had vertigo. With all this excitement we missed our 7:50 flight and ended up on the 10:35 flight to Chicago instead. We were assured our luggage would be on this flight so along we went and boarded. Sat on the plane waiting for take off and the flight crew s...