Fans have waited their whole lives to watch the Chicago Cubs win the World Series. So when the team did win, four gutsy boys couldn’t pass up a trip to Wrigley Field to watch the World Series parade all by themselves.

Dunston Werner (11) came up with the idea, and after he convinced his parents to let him go, he started asking other Cubs fans to go with him.

On November 4, Werner took off to Chicago along with Trevor O’Reilly (11), Cole Engel (11), and Nick Casey (10).

“It was pretty hard to find Cubs fans in the school that were allowed to go,” said Werner. “Most parents wouldn’t let their kids go.”

Even though O’Reilly and Engel aren’t Cubs fans, they joined Werner and Casey to see the parade. “Most Cubs fans are just bandwagons,” Engel said, “and I don’t want to be apart of that.”

The boys traveled for about three and a half hours in Werner’s car, ten minutes in a limo, and then an hour on a train. “We kind of lied about our age when talking to the limo driver, but he didn’t seem to care,” Casey said. “It was totally worth it, because the limo was awesome.”

Around noon that day, the boys arrived to downtown Chicago where they went to Wrigley Field along with five million other fans, which made it kind of hard to actually watch the parade because over a hundred people were in front of them.

However, they could see about 20 buses of team members, support staff, coaches and people involved in the organization drive by in the parade.

“They were all smiley and waving,” Casey said. “They looked like they were on top of the world.”

Each boy had their own favorite part of the trip. For example, Werner loved seeing the marquee that read “WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.”

O’Reilly enjoyed seeing all the people. “There was a dude in a White Sox Shirt that was riding around on his bike yelling things like ‘It’s been 108 years since they won this!’ and ‘Boy, you weren’t even alive!’” O’Reilly said. “We were all dying laughing.”

When the parade was over, the players came to Wrigley. O’Reilly took a selfie with the third baseman for the Cubs, Kris Bryant. “All I said was ‘Yo, Kris, can we get a pic?’ Then he grabbed my phone and took the selfie with me,” O’Reilly explained.

Overall, the boys had an amazing and unforgettable time.

“Not many high schoolers can say they skipped school to go to the World Series parade,” Engel said. “But we can.”