Christmas – 2011

Day 1 – Sunday, December 23

Barb and Ed decided to give the kids a Christmas present of a cruise, so on Sunday, all 14 of us set out for Chicago on the first day, the first leg of our Christmas party in the Caribbean.

We traveled to Chicago and stayed at the Chicago O’Hare Marriott for the evening as our flight was to leave Chicago early on Monday morning.

We arrived at the Marriott at 3:00 pm and immediately checked into our 4 rooms on the Concierge floor.  We kind of took over the bar area on the first floor as our meeting and talking area.  Some went swimming and at 5:30 the Concierge room was open for snacks so we went up there to eat. 

This is our family . . and we are soo proud of them!!

Then we ordered 4 large pizzas from Giordano’s that were delivered about 7pm.  The Bar Manager wasn’t happy we were eating Pizza and drinking beer in his area so the front desk moved us to the Concierge Lounge.  Soon the Manager on Duty came up and said we couldn’t eat there either and he gave us a very private area on the third which was wonderful of him.  After a lot of Pizza and some beer, we all called it a night at about 9:00p m as we had a shuttle from the Marriott to take us to the airport at 3:30am.

At the pool

Pizza Party for dinner