FINALLY, lets get to it. I got a lot to talk about when it comes to how I spent all of yesterday with a pair of my friends named Blake and Andy. Without taking too much time, lets go.

So it started with me waking up roughly around 7 AM, but slept an extra hour because my ride, that being Andy's Jeep, was going to be a while. Once I was up, all I did was watch videos while getting my stuff together. That and put in an order for Dunkin Donuts. Got Charli Cold Brew(Loved it) and a custom Beyond Breakfast Sandwich. Grabbed the order after Andy and Blake arrived and we even saw a friend of ours walking to DDs. I didn't know it was our friend Mary all this time that I've seen walked around this neighborhood several times. Anyways, the ride all the way over to our first stop, the Volo Auto Museum, was a long one. And I saw some neat sights along the highway. Sights that I will share later on.

So once we arrived at the Volo Museum, we went inside and got special wristbands for about $32 to get access to both the Auto Museum and a place called Jurassic Gardens. Upon entering the place, we've seen various vehicles from different time periods such as WW2 and old cars being restored to proper working condition. A grand majority of cars can be bought here except for one thing: CARS FROM FILMS. You have various cars such as the Ghostbusters' car, several from the Fast & Furious franchise, and even ones from bad films like the live action Cat in the Hat film. Oh, and they had Trump's fricking car there. That there was...rather weird for sure. Although, weirder than that is this place has carousel that was restored alongside these other machines that made music. Oh, but lets get to the best part of the trip for me: The 3 antique shops!

This place has all sorts of items here that made me so happy to see and I know my dad would love this place. They even had a place for video games alongside consoles, accessories, and games that are hard to find today. I managed to pick up one of two original Kingdom Hearts cases that were there. They aren't the ones with "Greatest Hits" labeled on it. No, this is the case with that special shine effect to it like from the KH2 case. I even saw other games that I long wish I could revisit like Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. Plus, there was something else that made me giddy, but given some current events around it right now, I'll refrain from sharing the other thing I saw. Lets say I did get something from it and a $5 for guessing someone's favorite monster. Overall, I want to revisit this place again someday. Hopefully with my dad over this summer!

Now, moving on, we left this museum for the main one Andy wanted to take Blake and I to see: Illinois Railway Museum. This place had all sorts of trains and cable cars from over the last century. Plus, they even had barns that contained various trains that you can walk into to view or even view the outside of trains that could be used to run out on a track. And yes, you get to take train rides and cable car ride depending on the time they have a ride go. We rode 3 times in a day with two of the trains being the same. Although, we did have a late lunch because Andy wanted to get to the museum fast before a train departed and even had dinner roughly an hour after our late lunch of 5:30. Suffice to say, things started to get a bit scrambled as the day progressed, but we managed to see so many trains and some that were from Chicago as well. This may have been the weakest point in the trip to me as I felt more fascinated by the Volo museum beforehand, but this museum wasn't shy of being interesting in my eyes at least.

Although, on our final train ride, the mood for me soured some. Mosquitos swarmed our train car since the windows were open to let air flow, the train stopped 3 times in total before the end of the ride, and the ride lasted nearly an hour. I was glad we were done as I got annoyed from all the bugs swarming me in the train car. Luckily, as a final stop on our trip, we went to an ice cream place where I was the only one to get Thai Rolled Ice Cream. I got a vanilla graham cracker rolled ice cream topped with coconut shavings, toasted marshmallows on a stick, and popping bobba. It was just a bit worth it as a late night treat as we did happen to hear a scream before entering a place and then as we were on our way home, Andy pulled over after seeing a rather large spider crawling around the inside windshield of the car. Dropped my phone once we got out of the car cause it wasn't fastened on my clip. Later on in the drive back, we hit a traffic jam on the highway due to construction. I ended up getting home half past midnight since our drive back was so long, but managed to get things cozy before sleeping late at night.

Overall? I thought the day was amazing and I honestly can't wait to look forward to another trip like this. Hopefully it'll be planned better next time in terms how late we stay out and what we do with the day. Gotta plan steps out when it comes to these trips, yeah?