Day 9: According to the plan... or not

One of the things we had planned while in Chicago was visiting the Dainese store (one of our favourite motorcycle clothing brands), so we'd checked the store hours and location ahead of time.  The store is in Schaumburg, a suburb of Chicago.  After picking up a rental car this morning, we set off for Schaumburg.  Upon arriving at the store, we noticed a little sign on the door labelled "Summer Hours".  Yup, the shop is closed on Sundays.  In a classy customer service move the website is of course not updated with this information.  Good going guys!  Strike one.

Our other thought was to head over to Oak Park to check out some of the Frank Lloyd Wright houses that we'd seen several years ago.  Of course, this isn't going to work either, it's been raining all bloody morning.  Strike two.

We have now spent the last 45 minutes hanging out at a... Starbucks of all places.  I thought I would lower myself and frequent a Starbucks to make use of their free wi-fi to get online and do some research as to what else we could do.  It would appear that all of the local motorcycle dealerships are also closed on Sunday.  Strike three.

So what now?  Well, we may venture into a mall for a little bit and otherwise we'd decided that we'll just head to the airport and be there way early.  In the grand scheme of things, it's a minor letdown.  The rest of the trip was fantastic and more or less went off according to plan without a hitch.

Update on Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 11:11PM by Cess

When in the suburbs, do as the suburbanites do: go hang out at a mall! We spent a few hours at Woodfield Mall. I admit I dragged Matt to the Sanrio store and the Lego store. I was disappointed that Sanrio had a very slim selection of Keroppi stuff. As for the Lego store: wow! Although we didn't purchase anything (our niece Kassidy is a little too young for Lego at this time), we had a great time browsing their wares. Some of the interesting things they had were architecture kits. The Fallingwater kit was nice to look at, but it was quite pricey.

We arrived at Chicago-Midway with a ridiculous amount of time to spare. We considered getting onto an earlier flight, but the service charge was a little to hefty for our wallets. The best part of coming home? Being able to walk home from the airport. ;)