day 34.

sunday. official rest day. only i did a lot of walking. in sandals. wasn't planning on doing so much walking. it just kinda happened.

first, i went to brunch with nicole, alice, and kyle. from my house, n & a and i walked over to southport for brunch at sopo which is maybe 3/4 mile? we were planning on staying more around my house but b/c of the pride parade it was a madhouse. from southport, we walked to waveland and halsted to watch the parade. another walk. maybe another half mile? 3/4 mile? more? it's so hard to tell how far it is when you are just walking around the streets. from there, kyle and i walked back to my house down halsted so we could see all the crazies and their dress up outfits. you'll have to refer to my other blog to see those pics! and so from waveland & halsted to clark and halsted, it's probably a little more than half a mile. then a quick couple blocks to my house.

at my house, kyle and i got some water, went to the potty, then decided to take the bus to north ave beach. yeah, the buses were not running down clark, so we decided to take the 156 bus over on sheridan and walked over there towards the lake. only that bus wasn't running either. great. so we walked. and walked to north ave. it is 1.5 miles if walked straight there. but we had to meander around to get there. excellent. probably made it more like 1.75 miles or so. finally at castaways, we ate chicken fingers and fries and therefore negated anything good we'd done with our walk. when it was time to go home, kyle went to the brown line and i decided on the clark bus since the end drop off spot was closer than the long block from the el stop. plus the el was a further walk to get there than the bus to begin with. however, i made the wrong decision. even though the parade had been over for hours, they were still changing the route. boo. first they said we had to get off at fullerton (or go all the way to irving park, um no!) which would have been a mile walk. then they said they were not doing the alternate route but that at the diversey/broadway intersection, instead of staying on clark, they were taking broadway. awesome. so i got off at diversey and had another 1/2 mile walk home. i was exhausted. finished. done. and fell asleep on the couch prob around 8ish and then got in bed by 10.