A City's Dancing - 08-10-13 (or: how to get rid of 10$)

Fortunately I haven't woken up in a midsummer's night tream yet, but then it was Sunday and we went to Chicago downtown again. Then imagine 200 people of all ages and all cultures dancing in the park to music from the 50s and 60s! And add an old-fashioned band with a car-piano and a proper party stage.

Probably that's been the most fascinating event I've seen so far - in fact, we could not resist to join in and so we danced our own version of Rock'n'Roll, Discofox and Line Dance. Then we built a huge snake touching the shoulders of our forerunner (of course it's been the greatest one the band has seen in their lives ;-)). They also player "Surfin' USA" a song we sang in high school - brilliant! I think I'm a fan of my parents' music now...

The overall bouncing did not even pause when the rain set in... We started dancing in the rain.




... and another story:
Grrrr... You want to get rid of 10$? Great!! Me, too... it just hasn't been my intention: 

"Oh, may I help you, what are you looking for?", asked a slightly mumbling gentleman when we stood at the crossroads in the center of downtown waving with our street map. We just briefly outlined our problem and immediately he started telling us to follow him; he was going to show us the way. I got a very unwell feeling due to his surprising kindness and began to be busy with the street map again.

What the holy burger was he going to do with us? When we arrived at our destination he continued talking about the Magnificent Shopping mile (since I am female, I love shopping, yes... indeed... just found a sense for my life...) and about McDonald's and so on...

Until (okay, actually that's just been five minutes) he asked for his charge, 40$. I would underestimatedsay that I was alarmed. Luckily we haven't been alone and we got away with 10$ without a tumult - but with a lesson learned.

Nevertheless, we found out about the once busiest McDonald's restaurant - so please look here to trace our whole path (please scroll down then, the effort will be worthwhile).