August 10, 2004
It never gets old…
Tonight was interesting. Wasn’t planning on going to the city when I woke up but hey, things change. I’m glad I went though, it was A LOT of fun. Thanks Jeff for throwing together yet another last-minute shin-dig. Here’s how it went…
I worked today from 10-4:45 at which time my mom was supposed to pick me up… At about 5, she showed up and after rushing home, I rushed around and got stuff then she dropped me off for the 5:27 train. Arriving in Chicago around 6:15, I skated down to Navy Pier area to meet up with the rest of the gang at Dick’s Last Resort. I had a huge chicken salad…like…seriously this thing was big. It was still big enough to be a meal after I was totally full. After eating we skated over to the North Side to meet up with some other people who had come down to check out Zach Braff’s new movie (he’s the guy from Scrubs…yea, he made a movie…and he stars in it too…and he makes out with Natalie Portman…which is a good idea if you’re making a movie that stars yourself.. so keep that in mind…even girls…). The movie was “Garden State” and it was hilarious. A couple times I almost felt like J.D. would come through with a voice-over narration like in Scrubs…but there wasn’t any of that…which is good I guess. So definitely check that one out. After that it was almost time to go home…but we realized we couldn’t skate like 3 miles in 10 minutes so we took the long way and went to the Field Museum and then back to the train station so we just barely made the 12:40 train…the *last* train of the day. It’s good to live life on the edge… 
Here’s some fun highlights…
1. What’s-his-face (seriously Jeff, what’s his name?) almost getting in a fist-fight with the waitress because she wanted to put an oversized condom on his head that said “Hung like a cold midget”
2. Skating through the restaurant district during dinner hours…that’s *very* crowded
3. Getting yelled at by taxis because they don’t bother looking behind them before turning right into you
4. Seeing the scene of the derailed train that happened earlier that day
5. Seeing some scene being filmed from Batman (at least we think that’s what it was…cause that’s what’s being filmed down there right now)
6. Skating in the bike lane in the street and going faster than the cars
7. The payoff after skating 2 miles out of your way when you get to see the Chicago skyline at night
8. Almost missing our train because we skated 2 miles out of our way
9. Walking in the middle of the street for 6 blocks from the train station to home
Needless to say, I had an excellent night. Can’t wait to do it again.
(I was gonna try and put together a map to see how far I went but it’s altogether too confusing with lots of lines going every which way. From what I measured, however, it’s more than 11 miles…so I might need to rotate the wheels on my skates pretty soon…)
