Normal Crazy Weekend
It seems like summer weekends have the inherent ability to spiral wildly out of control. Much like the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, all the parties are being squeezed into the same finite amount of time. I intended to post about Sunday before it happened, but then it just sort of happened anyway.
Sunday morning: pouring rain. Then sunshine and blue skies. 10am Pride Parade Pre-Party at Dave's house. 12:30ish, go try to find a place to stand along the parade route. Which was crazy. We usually watch the parade towards the end of the route, where there's a lot less people. This year we were fairly close to the beginning. But we were able to find a nice place in the shade that wasn't too crowded and we could see some things. We saw two ROTC (is that right? they have fake guns and dance. the second one had flags too) groups, and the line dancers, all of which I like. I like the coordinated dancing while walking, it's always impressive.
At 1:30 it was time to skeedaddle. We walked to the red line at Addison, switched to the brown line at Belmont, and were on our way. It started pouring when we got on the brown line, but we didn't mind. The train stopped at Sedgwick, our stop, and then continued on to Chicago. Without opening the doors to our car. Kidnapped by CTA! We called the conductor to tell him the doors didn't open, but they opened at Chicago. We had to run down the stairs, across the street, and back up the stairs, but we made a northbound train and went back to Sedgwick.
There's a new pizza place across from the Sedgwick stop, so we went there for lunch. Two pieces of greasy pizza with a nice crispy crust later, we walked out in the damp. The rain had stopped and the blue skies were back. We went home, got in the car, and drove to the Empty Bottle, where Mary was having an accordian recital. She's been taking beginning accordian lessons. The recital was very fun, our only regret was not knowing how to polka. We stood on the corner and chatted for a while but the sky to the north suddenly turned ominously dark and we all zipped off to our cars.
We drove home through a major rainstorm and decided the day could go no further without a nap. The cats thankfully left us alone and we woke up 20 minutes later. It was raining again in our neighborhood, but there was a report of blue skies at our next destination, so we finished preparing a salad and headed out.
Traffic, as we should have guessed, was terrible. We got off of Lakeshore at Montrose and had to get right back on. We got off at the next exit (Wilson), and parked in an apparently little known parking lot, as it had quite a lot of empty spaces. We walked across the wet soccer fields to Ben's birthday BBQ. It was very fun to see everyone, and we would have liked to stay longer, but the big dark clouds came back and the party decided to disband to a local bar. At that point we thought it was time to call it a day and go back home for good.
Sunday morning: pouring rain. Then sunshine and blue skies. 10am Pride Parade Pre-Party at Dave's house. 12:30ish, go try to find a place to stand along the parade route. Which was crazy. We usually watch the parade towards the end of the route, where there's a lot less people. This year we were fairly close to the beginning. But we were able to find a nice place in the shade that wasn't too crowded and we could see some things. We saw two ROTC (is that right? they have fake guns and dance. the second one had flags too) groups, and the line dancers, all of which I like. I like the coordinated dancing while walking, it's always impressive.
At 1:30 it was time to skeedaddle. We walked to the red line at Addison, switched to the brown line at Belmont, and were on our way. It started pouring when we got on the brown line, but we didn't mind. The train stopped at Sedgwick, our stop, and then continued on to Chicago. Without opening the doors to our car. Kidnapped by CTA! We called the conductor to tell him the doors didn't open, but they opened at Chicago. We had to run down the stairs, across the street, and back up the stairs, but we made a northbound train and went back to Sedgwick.
There's a new pizza place across from the Sedgwick stop, so we went there for lunch. Two pieces of greasy pizza with a nice crispy crust later, we walked out in the damp. The rain had stopped and the blue skies were back. We went home, got in the car, and drove to the Empty Bottle, where Mary was having an accordian recital. She's been taking beginning accordian lessons. The recital was very fun, our only regret was not knowing how to polka. We stood on the corner and chatted for a while but the sky to the north suddenly turned ominously dark and we all zipped off to our cars.
We drove home through a major rainstorm and decided the day could go no further without a nap. The cats thankfully left us alone and we woke up 20 minutes later. It was raining again in our neighborhood, but there was a report of blue skies at our next destination, so we finished preparing a salad and headed out.
Traffic, as we should have guessed, was terrible. We got off of Lakeshore at Montrose and had to get right back on. We got off at the next exit (Wilson), and parked in an apparently little known parking lot, as it had quite a lot of empty spaces. We walked across the wet soccer fields to Ben's birthday BBQ. It was very fun to see everyone, and we would have liked to stay longer, but the big dark clouds came back and the party decided to disband to a local bar. At that point we thought it was time to call it a day and go back home for good.
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