Thanks to a plug in the weekly update e-mail from my chief residents, Wendy and I found ourselves biking it down to Millenium Park for our first ever concert at the Pritzker Pavilion. For those who have been to Millenium Park this is the hugh amphitheater with the criss-crossing beams overhead and the amazingly soft grass that is just east of The Bean. (I used to think that the overhead beam-lattice served some sort of acoustic purpose other than holding speakers above the crowd, but I think that's pretty much it....and they look pretty freakin cool).
Anyways, I was actually on STAR (our version of a back-up resident) that afternoon and, of course, I got called. After, taking a few reports and admitting a patient, I was on my way, albeit about an hour-and-a-half late. Lucky for us, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists were still going strong when we arrived on the lawn. Wendy had graciously made a Whole Foods run, grabbing a smorgasbord of nice, summer-y salads and a bottle of wine. We parked our chairs and a blanket on the very back of the lawn after fortuitously seeing a group of people get up. Unfortunately, there were a group of high school d-bags who thought they might be more entitled to that space than us. After a few awkward moments of "Who's gonna give in first?", Wendy making some audible, passive aggressive comments, and one of the guys asking me if I was a nurse or a doctor because he was interested in being a nurse (I was wearing my scrubs), they spread out to some newly open space leaving us with our little slice of Millenium Park.
The music left something to be desired but we did not come for the music. It was about 80 degrees at sundown, with a subtle breeze. We had the Chicago skyline, including the Sears Tower and the Vagina building (you know which one I'm talking about), as part of our backdrop. And we had the energy of the Chicago summer all around us. What a great night. To make it even better, Bruno (in true Bruno-style) opted to take a cab down from Bucktown (about 4 miles) as the concert was wrapping up just to have a few beers and hang out on the impeccably manicured lawn of the Pritzker Pavilion.
Unfortunately, our time on the lawn was cut short by the security staff who said closing time was 10pm, not 11pm as advertised on the website. Luckily, we were able to regroup nicely at a picnic table not far from the bean where we finished our beers and Cheers-ed to Monday Funday in Chicago.
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