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Chicago
Monday July 24th
Spontaneous Kirtan program on the beach.

We call up Haridas Prabhu, Jay Jagannath Prabhu, and Mother Jackie as we drive from Michigan to Chicago and tell them we want everyone to meet on the beach for evening prasadam and Kirtan.

As we arrive Chicago we go to Wildoats and get a full box of free produce and water for our evening program- due to our humble begging.

We then go to the bike shop for bike boxes to ship our bikes to Seattle. We had to strap the huge boxes on top of the Mercedes and but the food box on to of the trunk above the bicycles. we had to stick our arms out of the car and hold the boxes due to the strong winds. It was a funny sight. sorry no pictures.

We visit the temple and take darshan of Sri Sri Kishore Kishori! always a wonderful sight.
I meet Sri Kishore Prabhu(RNS) who has just come to the US to bless us by doing his master in film at Ohio University Athens. He is a very sweet gentleman and extremely open minded.

Haridas and his entourage whip up a huge pasta, avocado salad, and tofu fajita meal for our kirtan festivities. Twelve of us pile into a van with prasadam and instruments and go to Lake michigan beach as the sun is setting. We do kirtan for a few hours and honor prasadam. Everyone had a great time.

Late night a few of us hung out in the basement of the temple in the prasadam hall while Chaitanya and myself finished packing for our 9 oclock flight in the morning. We are always greatful for the chicago devotees association. Thank you for taking care of us while we were there. When we come back we will have spontaneous kirtan festival part two!