Saturday, June 7, 2008

The best way to see Chicago











On Friday night, we along with the accounting group at Hugh's work, went on a 3 hour tour of Chicago on Segways. It took a little training and then we were off. The night was beautiful and the Blues Festival was at Grant Park so we had music to dance to as we rode along. We had to stay in turtle mode for awhile and then we were promoted to 8 miles per hour. There are only 2 companies that offer this service and they have only been in business since fall so everyone stared at us. Some yelled at us, and some gave us high 5's. One man yelled out, "Jesus doesn't like segways!" One young guy yelled out, "Segways are for lazy people!" He was just jealous because he was walking. By soldier field they have evenly planted rows of trees on a hill and we had slalom races down them. We also went down the hill with hands up and everyone yelling. It was a lot of fun. We had dinner outside by millenial park and enjoyed the night skyline. It finally felt like summer!

2 comments:

Lisa said...

Hey--you got to go despite the weather! That looks like so much fun. Adam needs a Segway to help him get to campus... and I need one for taking Jared on walks. Do they make baby Segway trailers?

Jen said...

HOw fun!! What a great business idea. I"m surprised this is such a new concept in Chicago. Dad is WAY too tall on that segway-how did he maintain balance?