so long and thanks for all the fish

They made us wait in the rain to get into Spoon at TNDC.

The semi-formal was awesome-. The music sucked, but everything else
was A+. Actually, the food wasn't all that great either, now that I
come to think about it. But they more than made up for it, with
dessert and of course, they kept the wine and beer flowing. Good
mingling, and let's just say, some dancing. Oh, and the dolphins and
the sharks and whales were pretty cool too!

Anyway, they kicked us out at midnight, which meant that we got up
reasonably early on Saturday. Decided to do that Hyde Park to Lincoln
Park bike-ride that we'd been meaning to do for ever. It was an
awesome ride. Took us about an hour to get to Lincoln Park (actually,
we're pretty certain we were way north of Lincoln Park.) We think we
did about 12.5 miles one way. There were tons of people everywhere --
a game at Soldier Field, something going on in Grant Park, the Art Fest
in Lincoln Park, and hundreds of thousands of Breast Cancer
walkathoners. Oh, and of course, lots of people on the beaches playing
volleyball and sunbathing. (For the record, saw more bikinis today
than in the past. See previous post about mid-western beach-goers
being more conservative than their west-coast counterparts. Something
to do with waning modesty with impending winter? A lasting tan?)

The way back was a lot harder because of the wind (did it in about an
hour and a half.)

After which, a caravan of 3 or 4 cars left for Devon. We were trying
to make the 4 o'clock show of Salaam Namaste. Got stuck in severe
traffic, so instead, all 15 of us decided to hang-out on Devon (mostly
at Sukhadias) and then catch the 7 o'clock show. The movie was a
disaster, but that's another story.