St. Patrick's Day Flop

For St. Patrick's Day we wanted to celebrate Chicago style (minus the drinking beer and getting rowdy part). We took the train downtown to see the Chicago River turned green for St. Patrick's Day. When we made it to the river, crowds of people were lined up and down the river to witness this event. So we found an open spot and waited for the green river.

As you can see, our spirits were high the first 15 minutes with anticipation for this exciting event. But much to our disappointment, we waited nearly 45 minutes and didn't see anything happening. We thought a motor boat would dry by while dumping the dye into the river, but obviously that wasn't happening. We decided to walk further down to see what was taking so long.

As it turns out, they put the dye in the river in one spot and wait for it to flow down the river. We finally saw it turning green but by then, we were cold (it's was 33 degrees), hungry and tired of waiting. We peeked at it long enough to take this picture.

We also wanted to see the St. Patrick's Day Parade, but somehow got the time wrong. When we went to Millennium Park to see the floats, they seemed to be all done. It wasn't the exciting day we had planned, but it was still fun to see those crazy Chicagoans dressed up for St. Paddy's Day. (We should of taken some pictures of people, but they might have wondered why we were snapping their picture).

Here's Leah in her green St. Patrick's Day outfit sitting on our green couch cover.