Chicago Marathon of Sorts: We Survived

Talk about serendipity: we went out for an innocent morning walk and guess what happened?

Fog, mist, wind... gorgeous Chicago scenery...

We found our way across town from the former meat-packing district via the theater district...

to the Chicago River, now a park...

Evocative lakeside scenes, including ships, boats, joggers, bikers, geese...

Canadian Geese? No way: Chicago Geese! Alison tries to immortalize them before they can drive her off... take a gander at that goose...

Then we rounded a bend and could go no further without joining the crowd.

Were they really drinking beer and margaritas? I sure smelled hops...

The cops kept the runners company, reminding us NOT to run against the tide. Of course had we been in Paris the gendarmes would simply have arrested us as false marathoners, so we felt we'd gotten off lightly.