Flight to the Chicago Area

My Great-Aunt Esther "Billie" Slosberg was celebrating her 90th birthday this weekend with a mini-reunion in the Buffalo Grove, Illinois area, which is a suburb of Chicago.  (Aunt Billie was my Grandmother Rose Slosberg Stoller's sister-in-law.  Billie was married to Harold Slosberg, who had passed away shortly before my birth.)
With Russ flying us in N75078, it should have been a 5 hour flight, including two stops for bathroom breaks.  Russ could normally make this a non-stop flight, but for safety will include one stop to top off the gas tanks.  (It would be very bad to run out of gas while flying over Lake Michigan.)  But for my comfort he'd planned two rest stops/re-fuelings.
Unfortunately, the weather had other ideas.  If we'd just been out for a pleasure flight, we would've cut the flight very short and headed back home.  But because I wanted to see my my uncle and his family, plus Aunt Billie and my other cousins, we pressed on with the flight.
Due to the headwinds and rapid development of thunderstorms, it took 8.5 hours and three rest stops for us to make this flight.  We also experienced some turbulence that left me very shaken up and Russ with a bump on his head.
I seriously hope the return flight is better.