Weekend Pics

We went downtown twice this weekend, once in the train and the other on bicycles.  The weather was nice and lots of things in session.

 

A Full Day

 On Father’s Day we took the train downtown to go to a couple of street festivals. The temp was in the upper 80’s but we thought, why not?  So we did.

First stop was Sunday on State where we saw a Tony Bennett performer, among other things. After that we stopped in the Palmer House to cool off. Then we worked our way over to the Japan Festival. We cooled off in the AIC before hopping back on the train. We got off a couple stops later to check out a lakeside bar/cafe that we might bike to sometime. The beers were not very cold but there was a nice breeze coming off the water. We decided to try to get on the train at a different stop and after some initial worry, we were able to get to civilization and made it to a train station. A severe thunderstorm showed up on our weather app and we thought we’d better just high tail it on home before it started. Alas, it did not even rain.

Pride Train

 Taking the train downtown today and got on the special Pride Train. Fun!

Big Night Out

 After spending nearly two weeks isolating because we had Covid, we finally emerged together, out in public.

We walked around downtown, saw a photography exhibit at the HW Library (talked with the artist), had a nice dinner out, then made our way to the Steppenwolf Theater, where we had a drink and saw a very good show.

Quilt

I can’t get the pics to go in the right order to show the progression, but you get the idea.

Finally finished it!

 

Performance Art

Went to an exhibit of some performance art today. This gal walked on some white paper with yellow paint on her feet! Then a classical music trio played some improv.

There was food and booze afterwards.

 

57th St Art Fair

The 57th St Art Fair was this weekend. Too bad it rained all day Saturday but Sunday was a nice day for it.