Shawn's Birthday Trip to Metropolis

This past Sunday, July 12, was Shawn's 26th Birthday.

I made him a sweet birthday cake (if I do say so myself). He liked it anyway, so I guess that's all that matters!

We wanted to do something fun and special for Shawn's birthday, so we decided to take a 2 day trip to Metropolis, IL. Shawn has been wanting to go there so quite awhile, so we finally made the journey down to the very bottom of the state of Illinois. The town is right on the Ohio River just bordering Paducah, KY. They have a Superman Festival every year in June, but we've never been able to go for that. There is a Superman Museum though and other Superman attractions, so we headed down Saturday morning after breakfast with Dad, Ana & Niko. It is a 6 hour drive!!! We decided to stay at a bed & breakfast in town. It is called the Summers Riverview Mansion.

The bed & breakfast had 5 rooms. All of them were really nice! We were in the Sweet Dreams room :) Our room had a canopy bed and the bathroom had a claw footed tub! There was also a huge tub with jets in each room too! I had the best, relaxing bubble bath on Sunday night!! Nice! The people who ran the B&B were really nice and we had a really nice stay! So much more relaxing than a hotel.

The Massac County Court House is in Metroplis and they have a large Superman Statue in the town square. As you can see, he's pretty tall! The town also has 2 musems. The Americana Hollywood Museum and the Super Museum. The Americana Hollywood Museum has all kinds of stuff about comic and Superman but also movie stuff too. There was a big section about Angelina Jolie (Tomb Raider stuff mostly) and Elvis, James Dean, Pamela Anderson (costumes she's worn in her movies...I didn't even know she was in movies!), etc. It had a ton of stuff. Was pretty neat to look though. There was also the Super Museum which was basically the history of Superman from comics through the movies. There was actual props and costumes from the movies and old TV shows plus tons of stuff you could have bought over the years. It was really neat to see the kind of Superman toys and stuff that was for sale back in the 50's as compared to now!

There was a piece of "Kryptonite" in town. Shawn is demonstrating the way Clark/Superman is hurt by it!

We went to a restaurant/bar in Metropolis called Willy Jak's. They actually had Keystone Light on tap for only $2 a glass! And that is a big glass too! We hit the jackpot!

Here is me in a Wonder Woman cape I wanted to steal! Seriously...If anyone knows where I can buy one of these I want it!

Superman's tombstone at the Super Museum.

Shawn (a.k.a. Superman) is peeking out of the phonebooth for the trouble before suiting up!

Sunday night after a busy couple of days we decided to go out for dinner to celebrate Shawn's birthday. Shawn chose Red Lobster (more than anything else because he wanted to make my little bro jealous!). It was delicious though. We had to go into Paducah for dinner, but that was kinda neat too. Except we were gonna get a bottle of wine of the way back to the B&B and discovered that like Indiana, you can't buy alcohol on Sunday in Kentucky either! Stupid states! We had gotten so used to being able to buy it whenever we want in Chicago! Geez! Way to ruin the end of the night stupid law!

So, we made it home today around 3:30pm and it was a fantastic trip! It really made us look forward even more to our honeymoon trip to Ireland (which is coming up in 2 months!!).