A front page article in this morning's paper was titled "Perfect Storm" in regards to what our public servants might have to face tonight. And if today was any indication, then they are definitely facing a storm tonight.
What are the elements? First of all, it's St. Patrick's Day in Chicago. Chicago has a rich Irish heritage and today the city was once again hosting a parade down Michigan Ave. This parade had been nixed in past years because of excessive public drunkenness. Added elements: it's a Saturday, many college students on Spring Break, and the topper, GORGEOUS Summer-like weather. Today's high was 85 (we broke a record today).
So, of course, this year of all year's is when we decided it would be fun to go downtown and see the infamous colouring of the river green (didn't get a pic).
We arrived in the city just as the parade was ending. My goodness. It was a sea of green.
We dove in and with Isaiah in a stroller and the girls holding daddy's hands, we swam with and against the stream hoping to capture a family picture at The Bean.
Well, that wasn't going to work. Just a few too many people milling around and many of them quite intoxicated. Real family friendly you know. We even witnessed an ambulance arriving with a stretcher to take away a young lady who had passed out on the lawn. Now mind you this was about 1 in the afternoon. When the girls asked what happened we explained that she hadn't drank enough water.
From The Bean we headed to Daley Plaza. The kids loved sliding down the Picasso sculpture and looking at the fountain of green water.
So while we didn't eat cornbeef and cabbage or have a leprechaun visit us, we sure had a fabulous time hanging out with our family.
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