A Beautiful Day for A Dark Knight.

Today, I went to work and did my thang just like any other day. 

EXCEPT ... (oh the suspense!)

... today, I snuck out with my coworkers at 11:15 (and walked down 20 flights of stairs) to meet up with our boss near the Sears Tower to go on a special little family outing. Let's just call it a "creative day." We hopped on a Shoreline Water Taxi and took a nice breezy cruise through downtown Chicago.

Here are some of my work buddies. Cute bunch of folks if you ask me. 

And here's me with our ever-so-generous and wonderful boss, Jim: 

(Who, me? A kiss-up? Naw.)

We sailed past the buildings that I pass every day on the bus during my commute, but somehow they looked much more grandiose from the river below. 

Here's a river-shot of the work-in-progress Trump Tower. If you stare at it long enough, you're like, "Dude. I get it. You're a great big, world-class, made-of-glass TRUMP TOWER ... Darn showoff."

And here's the building where they shot the "penthouse" scenes from The Dark Knight. 

Neat, man.

This was shot while looking back at the city from Navy Pier, where we docked and got off the boat ...

AND WHEN WE GOT OFF THE BOAT ... We walked inside the IMAX theater and watched the sold-out 1:00 showing of The Dark Knight. 

WHAT A MOVIE. 

I walked out of the theater feeling like I was just punched in the face with a whole bunch of AWESOME. It was especially cool because much of the movie was shot right in front of the building I work in.

I'm still feeling the after-effects of that film. I must see it again soon.

And if you haven't seen it, you absolutely MUST GO RIGHT AWAY. You won't be sorry.