Day 31 – April 29 - Rome to Chicago to Dallas

Our wake up call was at 6:30.  It was partly cloudy and 52 degrees with 72% humidity and 7 mph winds.  We had coffee in the cabin while dressing.  Our disembarkation number was called at 8:10 and after leaving the ship and collecting our luggage, we were directed to three different buses before getting one with room for luggage and after one false start where someone came running for the bus after we had pulled out and we had to stop for about 5 minutes, we left the port at 8:55.  The bus that they had put us on was for a different terminal first.  We finally got to terminal T5 at 10.  By the time Glenda got us a luggage cart we had just over an hour before our flight.  We checked our bags, cleared 2 security checks and were bused to the departure terminal.  Then as we were boarding, Glenda was pulled over for another search of her carry on and purse and a pat down.  We finally got on board and took off on time at 11:15.  We had very good meals in business class and watch several movies on our personal Samsung Galaxy tablets that they provided.  We landed in Chicago at 3:10 and cleared immigrations and customs and got to our gate for our flight to DFW at 4:10 only to find that the 5:15 flight was delayed due to weather to 6pm then 6:10.  We finally started to board at 5:40 but were stopped after only a few had boarded due to a mechanical problem.  They estimated an additional 30 delay and had all the people already boarded get off.  We finally boarded at 6:20 and took off at 6:45.  We landed in Dallas at 9 and got the luggage at 9:30.  The driver got us home at 10:15.  We were pretty well shot.