Earlier today I went to Jameson’s Charhouse with Ed and Taiki – Ed you know, and Taiki is a buddy I’ve known since junior high.
Before my burger came out, I got this bowl of soup (as well as some bread we could eat before our soup arrived, which you can see in the background behind the knife):
It had a bread-boat of powdered cheese.
For the main meal, I got a Jameson’s burger, which came with fries, cole slaw, and pickles.
After finishing our food and dropping Taiki off back at his house, Ed had this sudden urge to play with a frisbee. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find a frisbee in his garage, so we went to Walmart to buy one for $0.97 ($1.05 when including tax).
While we were walking around the sports area, I came across these license plates for bikes. All the names seemed normal, until I came across…
BUBBA.
After purchasing a frisbee, we came back and started throwing it around, until we realized how bad we were at throwing frisbees. I successfully chucked the frisbee into a foresty area near our subdivision, and Ed was brave enough to enter the dark depths of the abyss to retrieve our new toy.
After exhausting ourselves with the frisbee, Ed took this photo through tall grass on our way back to his house.
No, we did not encounter any wild Pokémon.
For dinner, we went to Ed’s restaurant (that his family owns). Upon arriving, I came across a bamboo tree with a sign on it.
In case you can’t read it, it says “Please don’t shake the tree.”
Yes, apparently, they have such massive problems with people shaking the tree that they had to put a sign on it telling people not to shake it.
After a short while, my food was ready – I had beef, broccoli, and rice (with other random vegetables).
After finishing our food, I came back to my house to play some League of Legends, respond to emails, and go to sleep.
On the train ride there, Ed played some intense Candy Crush.
This is right after arriving at Oak Park and getting off the CTA loading area.
On the way to the movie theater in Oak Park, we came across this house. If you take a look at the gutter, you will see that the owners of this house appear to be collecting leaves in there.
We also came across a plant with very soft, fuzzy leaves.
While Ed was feeling the leaves, cool guy Hao walked ahead of us.
“Why is the top of that church so shiny?” “Because it’s piercing the heavens.”
As we got closer to the movie theater, we decided to get some food before watching the movie. On our way to finding a restaurant, Ed tried to take a photo that looked like he was holding a car. He failed.
After completing our train ride and taking our first steps of the day into Chicago, we came across this structure. Ed said that it was the “Olympic torch for giants.”
Then we noticed that it was actually called the Batcolumn.
Ed decided that he likes the name “Olympic torch for giants” better.
While we were walking from the train station to Hao’s apartment, we walked across the highway.
As well as this brilliantly named restaurant – El Famous Burrito.
We also walked across this truck whose logo resembled a Pokéball.
After a bit over a mile of walking, we finally made it to Hao’s apartment.
:c 
Ignore the blurry black thing at the bottom-left corner of the photo above – my dad accidentally included the camera’s cord in the picture.The next photo is of the screen above the ceremony area. The Kohl Center is usually a basketball stadium, which is why this was there. During the ceremony, it was used to give a close-up of the speakers and graduates, as well as closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
The last two photos are of the ceremonial area before commencement began.
All the other photos my dad took of me are too blurry because they were seated so far away. There were, however, professional photographers taking pictures of all the graduates, so once those get processed, I’ll be able to keep those as a souvenir of the ceremony, and possibly post them up here if they’re not too awful.