Saturday, March 15, 2008

It's green!

Today was the annual "Dyeing of the Chicago River". The crazy thing is that the dye they drop into the river is actually a nasty orange color and it turns into the bright green that you see below. There are two boats that help get the job done... one dumps the dye into the river and the other drives through the water "stirring" it up. I decided to go check it out this morning.

At the beginning, when they are still mixing it up


The boat dropping more dye into the water


You can see how dark the dye looks when it hits the water


These are the guys that were "stirring" up the dye in the water


Here are the guys that were dumping the dye... you can see how orange their white-jumpsuits are now


Afterwards, it's a nice shade of bright green!

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