Got into Chicago at 8:30AM. 
This place sure got a lot of snow earlier this week. We saw a lot of it piled up beside the taxiways.
The building architecture of Chicago O'Hare is impressive. The use of open steel structures is really neat:
So we hung out in the United Club Lounge while waiting for our next flight. Our departing flight for San Francisco was delayed a couple times due to the rain storms in the Bay Area. We didn't depart until two and a half hours after our scheduled departure time. Our concern was that would use up our entire layover time in San Francisco, and we'd risk missing our connection.
As it turned out, our connecting flight from San Francisco was delayed by 8 minutes to allow connecting passengers (us) to catch the plane. Then it was delayed another two hours so a flight crew could arrive. Those rains storms in the Bay sure played havoc with flight schedules.
I have to give full credit to United Airlines for the way they kept us informed of the delays. As soon as a new departure time was entered into their system, we got text messages and notifications in the United App informing us of the delay. With WiFi on board many domestic US flights, it was easy to check on the status of our flights.
Found a Boudin's bakery in the airport and introduced Tim & Jody to San Francisco's famous clam chowder in a sourdough bread bowl. Mmmmm good!
So here's us hanging out in Terminal 3 in San Francisco, waiting for our fought to Kona: 
At this moment (7:30 PM) we're sitting in our seats waiting for a flight crew and new cabin crew to arrive. Now they're estimating an 8:00 PM departure, which after a six-hour flight will get us in to Kona just after midnight. Which will be 4:00 AM Winnipeg time. We'll have been up for more than 26 hours by the time we get to the beach house. Road warriors we are.
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