Road Trips are always a hassle but it can be a blast at the same time. The morning after the Panic! At The Disco concert in Milwaukee we packed up and ate breakfast before setting out onto the road to Chicago. After spending as little as we could, because Sydnee and I are broke college students, we looked at brochures that offered free attractions and we found one, The Jelly Belly Factor just outside Illinois. The Jelly Belly Factory offered a tour of their stock room which also has a history of the company build in it. They didn't allow us to take pictures during that part but we did get to take a few pictures in the gift shop. My favorite part of touring this was that they had the Harry Potter Jelly Beans for sale, as well as chocolate frogs. I even met a fellow YouTube lover who watched Joey Graceffa and Connor Franta. One of them were even wearing a Connor Franta T-shirt. It was so exciting meeting someone who watched the same peoples videos that I do.
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| Jelly Belly Car |
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| The waiting room for the tour |
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| Cute walls |
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| How unique |
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| Inside the factory |
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| Getting Ready for Tour |
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| Harry Potter Belly Beans |
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| Chocolate Frogs |
After the Jelly Belly Factory we continued our drive to our hotel in Chicago. Well actually the hotel was just outside Chicago but anyways. The second hotel we stayed at was way better than the first. The room was so much bigger and more comfortable. The bed was even bigger. I love big beds which was an even bigger plus. But the sucky part was that it was hard to get to the hotel. You could only get to it from one way.
Our first night we got Papa Murphy's Pizza and had a chill out night. Watching this Tv Show on LifeTime called
Bring It. Which was the weirdest yet most addictive Tv Show out there. I am going to say this now but the last few days of our trip was not as exciting as we hoped. We had all these plans but they fell through especially since Sydnee lost her credit card and her drivers license. We tried to go to a movie that first night and got rejected because he needed to see her id for the R rated movie. I have never, since I turned 18 almost two years ago, been carded to go to a movie. I could pass for 21. That was a set back but we moved past this and went and watched Tv and ate left over pizza. How original.
The next day we had an early start. We decided to go to Navy Pier and travel to all the major tourist spots such as Millennium Park and Buckingham Fountain. We started off by going to the Buckingham Fountain, which I kept calling the Buckingham Palace because I thought I was funny. But it was absolutely gorgeous, stunning if you insist. We started there and had to pay for parking and for an hour it was $4.00. Four Dollars, that was crazy. The hour was the perfect amount of time to see the fountain and look out onto the beautiful lake. Gorgeous, I was mesmerized. We also went to the few other surrounding areas they had there. The names are escaping me but they were just as fun to see.
After seeing the Buckingham Fountain we traveled through the craziness that is driving through Chicago. We made it to The Navy Pier. We weren't 100% sure what we were getting into we had to pay $21.00 to just park which was a lie on the website. That sucked which meant we had a small amount of money left over. I had expected a lot more on the Pier but it was still fine. There were restaurants and boat cruises. We walked through all of it and saw a cute Ferris Wheel. We couldn't figure out how to get there so we continued around and until we accidentally fell upon it. We took tons of pictures and even road a little Trolly to a road in town so we could walk to Millennium Park.
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| Ferris Wheel Ride |
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| View From Ferris Wheel |
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| Ferris Wheel |
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| Chicago |
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| Navy Pier |
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| Gorgeous Chicago |
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| Inside the Cart |
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| Navy Pier |
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| Creative Angles |
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| Chicago |
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| Festive Navy Pier |
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| The Ferris Wheel |
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| Trolly |
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| The Bean |
After our exploration of Chicago we traveled back and realized I had an awful sunburn from my purse strap. We chilled out in our room for the rest of the night. Falling asleep early from the sun and watching Tv a bunch we got ready to leave the next morning. We didn't pack our stuff up again because we are crazy and very lazy.
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