The Powless Family - May 2006

Cast: Dennis 35, Amanda 25, Emily 10 and Hanna 9 - From Michigan
May 14-24, 2006
Pop Century Resort room 2459 50's section

Day 1 - May 14th, 2006

Well after months of planning and researching this trip we finally have left and are on our way to WDW.

BTW, I would like to thank Linda Norton of TMFL travel for all her advice and expertise in helping us make this trip happen. And a large thank you to all of you for your advice over the years that has made this trip enjoyable. Also, we used a lot of TGM concepts in the parks and in the planning stages.

We are all packed up and are driving from our home near Kalamazoo, MI and we started to drive to Chicago for our first night of vacation. The drive went with out problems, and yea the construction along the way makes it a bit slower. We decided to spend the night before in a hotel so we wouldn't have to drive real early in the morning. Boy and I glad we did this as the travel was a bit slow on 294.

We arrived at our hotel the Four Points Sheraton O'Hare in Schiller Park. The hotel was nice, not a 5 star hotel, but what it lacked in amenities it made up 100% for in location to O'Hare. We parked our car and we swam in the pool and we felt like animals at the zoo, the one wall was the hall way to the conference rooms and they were having a wedding and the young boys stared at us thru the window.

The kids were doing homework, since one of my daughters teachers didn't like us taking her out of class she gave her tons, and tons of homework to do with reading in each of her text books. (When we got back we found out that she is doing this work in class that she was given as homework to take on her trip, ugggg!!)

We got some pizza and watched the planes land and take off from O'Hare. We didn't have to be up early so we just hung out and finally went to sleep. We were all nervous for the flights the next day. It's the first time for the girls, and my wife is not fond of flying.

We paid 150.00 for this place and it gave us 10 days parking, not a bad deal. I would stay here again in a heartbeat.

High points: being at our hotel the jumping point of the whole trip.
Low points: feverishly doing homework so we wouldn't have to carry the heavy text books on the plane.

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