Mayfest

Chicago's summer of street festivals has really begun in earnest. A couple of weeks ago was Lakeview's Mayfest, which is small and co-incides with the Crosstown Classic at Wrigley. (LP was DEAD that weekend because everyone was up the street.)

This weekend is Lincoln Square's huge Mayfest. Celebrate summer with giant plastic steins of German beer, brats & kraut, and people running around in lederhosen. Basically it's a weekend street party, "the whitest festival you'll ever see", a bunch of 20/30-somethings gleefully shouting any German they know as they are careful to not spill beer on their newest bestest drinking buddies. To a soundtrack of polka!

(Prost!)

(Gotta love hippies and beer)

Last night, we got there just in time for one pass at the ticket booth and bar. Once we had drunk the level of the stein down to something more manageable, we all headed into the fest-tent to bounce to polka (not enough room for full-on polka, to my dismay). Headed over to Sheffield's for their beer garden before another taco/GH night.

So work is a little rough today. But my stein is clipped to my bag and ready for round 2 tonight! Prost!

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