Never ending cultured weekend

I had a great weekend. On Saturday I headed to the Irish American Heritage festival (no , I'm not Irish but my boyfriend is) We chatted with friends and enjoyed some great music. We then headed to Chief O'neils on Elston (still trying to keep the Irish thing going) We left a bit after 2 in order to avoid the L.A.T.E Ride bikers.
I dropped his butt at home he wanted me to stay over but I kinda wanted to see the biker pass by my house so I left. It was almost an eternity to get to my house early Sunday morning. Foster was blocked off and the cops were not allowing anyone cross on Kedzie, I mean come on I was 2 blocks from my house. So I had to get creative I took some side streets and went the wrong way down a street(Hey it was 4 in the morning no one is out)Finally making to Kedzie and sat for about 5 minutes waiting for a pockect of no riders to cross Kedzie and finally made through. As I sat there I was a bit envious of those rider I wanted to do the L.A.T.E. ride. I did the ride 2 summer ago and had a great time once we were able to pass the congestion downtown, maybe next year.
Sunday BJ and I rode to the lake to see our all time favorite band (J/K) General Patton and his privates. They were playing for the Peace fest/Weed fest had a good time. As we sat enjoying the show 2 chicks came up to use to ask if we would take a survey and it paid, no it wasn't a sex survey but and actual study. The chicks said they were from the U of I campus focusing on Latinos, exercise and the lakefront.
In order to get paid we have to wear some sort of monitor that records your activity and calories burn for 7 days send it in and collect a check, that's it.
BJ's friend Smooth D came by and convinced me to jump in the lake with the clothes I was biking in at first I declined but as I saw how much fun BJ and smooth D were having I jumped in and enjoyed it. I loved it, yes it was a bit crazy , crazy for my standards but it was FUN. At the lake while waiting a bit to dry off we had some elotes con todo including chile. Yum Yum !
After we rode to the Old town school of Folk Festival on Lincoln Ave and Montrose.
BJ and I had a dilemma It was 5 bucks to get in and we were down to our last 5 bucks so we scanned the area to see were the weak points of the festival were aka we wanted to sneak in, and found NOTHING. We sat near the festival entrance debating if we should pay our last 5 bucks or get something to eat and there a weak spot in the fortress the guy who monitored the exit stepped away for like 3 minutes and BJ and I looked at each other and decided to break in and we made it. BJ then had another dilema buy a beautiful necklace with a school or eat she made the right choice eat , she had something creek and I had a pina colada for $4. I still have a buck in my pocket. Well we went to Wells park to see OZOMATLI the greatest band ever and thats no joke. They played an awesome set and BJ and I had a great time. Once over we headed home on our bikes and went mimi aka sleep.