Fireworks

Last night I finally got my 'surprise' that Andrew has been trying to get me to go see. First time we went too late to catch the bus on time. The second time it was cold and icky and Andrew and I took a nap and missed it. But last night we finally got to go, which is good cuz the weather threatened to rain but it turned out to be a beautiful day and night.

So we caught a bus (we ran for it, but we made it) and headed towards the Navy Pier. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's an amusement park on the beach. It has a huge Ferris wheel that lights up at night and I'm sure various other rides. I haven't been in there myself but we can see it from the beach. We walked in the ritzy part of town toward the beach and walked on the bike trail for a while. I had guessed what we were there for by the time we got there. When we had gone to the movies with Bob (see post called Movies) we had gotten to see a tiny little glimpse of the Navy Pier fireworks on our way back home. I guess they do fireworks on certain nights, and Andrew had found out which nights those were.

They were fantastic! We had gone down the the strip of beach close to the Pier and played around for about a half hour in the sand. Andrew even threatened to throw me in the water. Jerk. Took some pictures, and then at exactly 10:15 PM the fireworks started. The cool thing about a big place like Chicago is they don't cheap out on the fun stuff. The fireworks were huge, and they even had some fun ones like smiley faces and hearts with arrows through them. That went on for about ten minutes and then they were done. It was a pretty great surprise =) .