I went downtown on March 15th to see the Chicago River dyed green and to see the St. Patrick’s Day parade. It was quite an experience. Nothing too crazy, just another day in Chicago. On the way downtown we took the brown line. After a couple of stops the train was beginning to become full of people heading downtown for the St. Patrick’s Day festivities. For the next forty minutes we got to listen to ‘buzzed’ college students sing ‘Irish’ jigs. We were ready to get off the train when it was our stop.
After walking the rest of the way to the river we got to see the river dyed. It is quite an experience and I recommend it if you have never seen it before. The green really pops out! When we first got to the river there was a family behind us that kept wondering if the river had been dyed yet as the river is naturally green. They were notably amazed when they finally started the dyeing.
After seeing the river green, we walked across one of the bridges to go see the parade. It was packed - so packed that it took us at least fifteen minutes to cross the bridge. The parade was okay. It had a couple bagpipe bands which were really cool. And they had a couple cool floats. And of course they had the Celtic dancers. The only problem was that they had like thirty different groups with dancers, including their parents walking (and talking on their cell phones) behind them. Besides that it was this politician and that representative and tons of people just walking in the parade with no seemingly connection to the parade or St. Patrick’s Day. After a while the parade just kept going and going. We decided that it was time to go. The only problem there were so many people it took us another thirty minutes just to leave the main street.
Next time I think we will skip the parade and just watch the dyeing of the river.
After walking the rest of the way to the river we got to see the river dyed. It is quite an experience and I recommend it if you have never seen it before. The green really pops out! When we first got to the river there was a family behind us that kept wondering if the river had been dyed yet as the river is naturally green. They were notably amazed when they finally started the dyeing.
After seeing the river green, we walked across one of the bridges to go see the parade. It was packed - so packed that it took us at least fifteen minutes to cross the bridge. The parade was okay. It had a couple bagpipe bands which were really cool. And they had a couple cool floats. And of course they had the Celtic dancers. The only problem was that they had like thirty different groups with dancers, including their parents walking (and talking on their cell phones) behind them. Besides that it was this politician and that representative and tons of people just walking in the parade with no seemingly connection to the parade or St. Patrick’s Day. After a while the parade just kept going and going. We decided that it was time to go. The only problem there were so many people it took us another thirty minutes just to leave the main street.
Next time I think we will skip the parade and just watch the dyeing of the river.
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