{"id":3483,"date":"2025-06-13T09:44:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=3483"},"modified":"2025-06-13T09:44:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:44:24","slug":"chicago-2025-day-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=3483","title":{"rendered":"Chicago 2025 | Day Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01-breakfast-1-scaled.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01-breakfast-1.jpg?resize=525%2C394\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01-breakfast-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01-breakfast-1-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01-breakfast-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01-breakfast-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01-breakfast-1-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday morning, we started with breakfast at The Good Eating Company, bid farewell to our server there (who recommended a cafe in Portland for us). Then decided to just check out and head to the airport. Our flight didn\u2019t leave until about 4:00, but we were tired and ready to go home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were glad we did. There was some construction going on around the Blue line and the airport was packed. We had a comfortable ride in, had lunch and bought some salads for dinner on the flight and hung out. It was comfortable timing, with just enough margin to not feel rushed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/02-airport-scaled.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"243\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/02-airport.jpg?resize=525%2C243\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/02-airport-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C473 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/02-airport-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C138 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/02-airport-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C354 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/02-airport-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C709 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/02-airport-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C945 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We arrived home around 10:00 pm and Brenda\u2019s brother shuttled us home and we could sleep in our own bed. All flights were good, connections good and a very enjoyable experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/03-airport-scaled.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/03-airport.jpeg?resize=525%2C394\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/03-airport-scaled.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/03-airport-scaled.jpeg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/03-airport-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C576 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/03-airport-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1152 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thesimplehouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/03-airport-scaled.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1536 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday morning, we started with breakfast at The Good Eating Company, bid farewell to our server there (who recommended a cafe in Portland for us). Then decided to just check out and head to the airport. Our flight didn\u2019t leave until about 4:00, but we were tired and ready to go home. We were glad &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=3483\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chicago 2025 | Day Eight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3488,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions\/3488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}