We drove to Chicago to catch our first KLM flight to Amsterdam departing at 4:10 pm . Allan accompanied us (Virginia, Mark and me) to drive our car back to Elkhart. The amazing thing was that all seven of our suitcases just fit into the trunk of little Toyota Echo!

The flight from Chicago to Amsterdam was on one of KLM’s Boeing 747s.

We passed through security quite easily and quickly.  We boarded the plane on time, only to sit for two hours at the gate while a mechanical problem was corrected. We were told that it was one of the air conditioning systems and that one of the engine housings had to opened to fix it.

Finally, we were on our way a little over two hours late!