Summerdance

I went to Summerdance this past weekend. Summerdance is a city of Chicago-sponsored event in Grant Park. The weather was perfect, low 70s, and low humidity. The band was good, and I saw a bunch of people that I've recently met in the Chicago swing scene. The only problem was that because the weather was so nice, there was so many people out that the dance floor became very crowded. When the dance floor is crowded with many, ahem, neophyte dancers, you end up with sore shins and ankles.


Afterwards, we wandered up to the Drake Hotel bar, which has a regular band, and best of all, is smoke-free. The Drake is one of those fancy hotels from the early 20th century. It is on North Michigan Avenue (not too far from the Apple store). I had one of rare drinks, a key-lime martini, and ate more than my share of the complementary trailmix-like munchies. Afterwards, a couple of us got a ride back to Grant Park (where my car was), by a a fellow dancer dude (thanks Mike!) Overall, it was a great evening.