Because of the relatives of my father-in-law, it brought up a chance for me to join the short visit to Chicago. The 4th biggest city in the US.
The carpool team made up of 5 people, my hubby, me and my father-in-law, another close couple friend. It took us 3 hours to reach the border in the Sonia area. Three of us were holding a Canadian passport, and two need to present to the custom. That day was Friday, so the waiting time is a little bit longer. While waiting, we saw the customs officer were very patient and asked detail questions to those applicants who are ahead of us. Some of them were even rejected immediately or kept to another small room for further processing. Finally, it's our turn, the officer was a young guy, his questions were very comment, as a result, our group is okay to continue the journey. But it was already about two hours later.
We drove another 5 hours and approaching to the states of Illinois. Funny stories here was when we were passing the toll road, we could not recognize the toll stations, therefore we were missing 2 or 3 times for the charges. According to the couple friend, if we receive the bill later in Canada, it could cost up to 50 Canadian dollars. No way! We definitely would like to pay off here, on the toll station notification, it showed the route only cost $1.5! Lucky that local friends told us we can search the information online and pay the estimation or pay online with 7 days.
It's a long and happy journey, we arrived at uncle's house at about 6:30 PM.
