The Snowball fight in Chi-Town

Alright already, I have been reading this blog since its inception with admiration and entertainment at the creativeness, cleverness, love and lightheartedness with which you all have been posting…. I have been waiting for the right moment and reason to make my first entrance to this esteemed forum. It seems the moment is now, as I have been repeatedly requested by my beloved brother-in-law and my beloved spouse to add to the ongoing narrative of the “Best Saturday in a Decade”. As we left our unscheduled (not really as we all knew we would eventually end up in a little watering hole with good beer to spend time discussing, and fixing, the woes of the world), we had a short 3 minute walk back to our house. T-Flo and I were out in front as Tango and Rider X trailed behind. It didn’t take long for the brother and sister combo to start launching snowballs at us from behind. But lo and behold, up in front of us were a couple pre-teen/teen boys waiting in their front lawn to also heave a few snow balls at some unsuspecting, but hopefully good-heartened, adults. Well, as T-Flo and I approached the boys, we encouraged (or ordered, I can’t remember) them to attack Tango and Rider-X bringing up the rear. The boys gladly obliged and a hellacious snow ball fight ensured between the boys and Tango/Rider X. Meanwhile, T-Flo and I continue out of the line of fire and watched as much of the fight as we could see in between our bouts of laughter. In the end, Tango and Rider X easily beat back the boys who had no idea how their good-natured ambush on some adults turned into their own snow-ball beat down on a quiet Saturday night as Tango and Rider-X “hit ‘em at will.” And that folks is my version of the snow ball fight that occurred on Bryn Mawr Avenue, in Chicago, on the Best Saturday in a Decade!!! Happy Birthday to T-Flo and Tango-99, love you tons!!!