Hyde Park Outing

Last night, four IMSA seniors and I went on a little trip to Hyde Park.

The ostensible reason for the trip was to go to Java Jive. The four folks who ended up going have all been dancing for a while, so there wasn’t much point in going to the beginner lesson. This left us with an hour or so ot kill before dancing started.

We first went to Medici‘s café and grabbed drinks. After parking the van near Shoreland Hall (where Java Jive was taking place), we trundled eastward.

We headed over to Promontory Point Park and paused for a while to take in the view from the north side of the Point. It’s one of the best places to see the skyline in the city (save, perhaps, for the north side of the museum campus) and on a windy day, you can watch the waves on the lake crash up over the rocks bounding the Point. None of the students who were with me had been there before. I hope they enjoyed it at least as much as I did.

After a brief trip to Subway, we then headed over to Java Jive. There were a lot of new faces there; I met folks from DeKalb and Boston, as well as some new-to-the-scene Chicago dancers. The floor was also unbelievably fast; doing balboa was really easy, but boy did you have to keep your balance on your swingouts!