kayaking the chicago river

i've had the chance to do some pretty fun stuff with vendors from work this summer: cubs rooftops, sox box seats, billy joel & elton john ... but this time we kayaked almost 8 miles down the chicago river. and into the dark of night! anyone who knows me, knows i love the chance to wear headlamp, so i was really pumped once i knew we'd be paddling post sunset. we started pretty far north that afternoon and you'll see that it gets progressively darker as we approached downtown, and then passed it, eventually docking in china town and having a non-chinese dinner at a fried fish joint.

omd folks and weather.com folks

and to top it off, i made the news. you can't tell it's me, but i'm in the front kayak with a girl named jessica from my work. fast forward to seconds 1:42 to 1:48 for a back-of-the-head-from-really-far-away shot! http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=6975848

click below for more kayak photos!

{you can see the headlamps in this one}