For those of you keeping track, Saturday and Sunday were the Celtic Festival here in Chicago and was my first large group kilt outing. We thoroughly enjoyed the festival and met with auld_argonian and his daughter to enjoy the highland games on Saturday.

After spending most of the afternoon at the festival, we decided to head over to Navy Pier, a kind of boardwalk/shopping/restaurant area built on a pier that sticks out into Lake Michigan and is very popular. We enjoyed some drinks adn music, let the kids ride some of the rides and enjoyed the sunset and a beautiful full moon rise. As we were heading to the taxi line, a small bunny ran out of the bushes next to the Bubba Gump restaurant and headed on a beeline for the 3 lanes of traffic between him and the park on the far side of the road. Besides the line of taxis, there were probably 15-20 cars pulling in and out and a white stretched limousine pulling in. As I saw the bunny racing for the road, all I could see in my mind was the bunny being crushed under the wheels of a car. I immediately began running forward thinking I might be able to catch him before he got to the road. Well, I guess the bunny wasn't really ready to accept a large guy in a kilt as his savior, so he started to run faster, and still right for the cars. At this point I decided I might as well try and facilitate his dash to safety by trying to stop traffic, so I began waving my arms like a madman and ran into the road to stop traffic. The driver of the limo looked at me like I was nuts but he stopped, another vehicle slowed down, and the bunny came through like a world class running back, cutting around both of those vehicles, behind a third and then making it to safety in the park on the far side of the road. To celebrate, and let everybody know he made it safely, I turned to walk back to my wife and kids and pumped my fists in the air (a la Rocky) and yelled "He made it", not really thinking at the time how the whole episode must have looked to all of the diners at Bubba Gump's and the rather large crowd of people coming and going to Navy Pier. My wife later told me that 2 guys near her were commenting that I was going to get myself killed and there was no way I would be able to save the bunny, but all of the women were cheering me on and were very glad every thing worked out. Thanks for the support ladies!

Anyway, another lengthy post, but I hope everybody enjoys this funny story (just visualize the picture of a large kilted gentleman doing all of the above and you should definitely smile!).

RJI