The following are photos from yesterday’s annual dyeing of the Chicago River. Every year, around St. Patrick’s Day, the city of Chicago injects a “harmless” dye into the Chicago River, rendering it a shocking shade of flourescent green. Kim, Maria, and I traipsed from bridge to bridge to get a better view of the creeping green cloud that lolled through the river.

Afterwards, we got some hot cocoa, did some shop-hopping, and then Maria and I went to Bella Bacino’s for lunch. I had eaten there years ago and really enjoyed it - good pizza, nice atmosphere, friendly staff. Now they have good pizza. Period. While we were wandering around trying to find Bacino’s, using only three year old memories as a road map, we saw a legion of fire trucks rush to the river to rescue four people who lept into the dyed green depths. I still don’t know if they got out OK. Crazy kids.