August 1, 2004
The Night of Blinds
Chicago is great. I mean, that was an awesome trip…like…seriously. We (Marissa, Lauren, Kim, and I) got on the 8:27 train (barely) into the city and met up with people (Jeff, Tom, Gideon, Brian, Pat, Megan, Karl, Bobby, Ishan…well…there were about 30 altogether so I’m just gonna stop trying to remember everyone) at the magic bean (or jelly bean, or just bean…no one actually calls it by it’s real name “cloud gate”…it sounds lame). After that we wandered around the park and headed towards the lake (to join 500,000 other people) where they were shooting off the fireworks for venetian night
After the fireworks we walked around and checked out some of the boats that were decorated. The theme this year was “Broadway on the Lake” and many shows were represented, from “Music Man” to “South Pacific”…although, by the time we got there it sounded more like “Missy Elliot in Get your freak on” which I was unaware had been turned into a broadway production…but the boat people might have been confused…because they were all drinking.
We eventually wound up at Navy Pier where we got ice cream and hung out by the fountain. It was cool. Marissa, Lauren, Kim and I played the “Check Banana” game…where you find hot guys and say “Check Banana” or something…but I must have been messing it up cause they were just laughing at me. I guess I’m just used to the more open approach that guys use…like “she’s hot.”
Pretty soon we walked back to the train. Everyone else took the bus, but we got there first, HA! Well, really it was a tie…but we saved money and got a lot of exercise, therefore: we win!
Ok, time for sleep. Gotta work tomorrow, then at night we’re watching 2 movies! Holy cow!
