Saturday, May 23, 2009

Artsy Fartsy

Yesterday John and I took the "el" downtown to go to the art museum. The Art Institute has just recently opened a new MODERN wing, and the entire museum was free all of this past week. SWEET.

The new wing was really neat. Lots of very weird things that either make you think outside of the box, or make you think "what the *%#@ was that guy smokin'?". Anyway, we had a good time. Then we walked outside to find some lunch and we witnessed a man being arrested. He apparently had tried to steal someone's things and they'd chased him for quite a while. Bad idea, buddy.

So we ate lunch at some good Italian place on Madison St. that I now can't remember the name of. It started with a P. Then we sat in Millennium Park for a while and you'll never guess what I saw. A little baby bird tumbled from the top of a pillar down onto the concrete sidewalk. SPLAT. Right on his beak. He apparently fell from the nest and could not fly yet. He was still breathing, and he squawked a little when a girl stepped on his wing, but I'm pretty sure that death was near. POOR BIRDIE. [It may have been a baby pigeon, in which case I don't feel quite so sad, but still a little sad.]



We finished up the day with Jamba Juice. It was mostly a good day with a couple of sad happenings.

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