While most of Chicago chose to use Sunday morning to do normal things like sleep in, go to church or attend the Air and Water show, I decided to break in the day with a 70 mile bike ride. Yes, you read that right, SEVENTY miles. And it wasn’t even the highlight of the day. After I got home (many, many, many hours later) I headed out with B to take 30ish of our closest friends sailing. It was a gorgeous night, and since I like everything to be all about me, I started it off by promptly watching my iPhone slide off the boat and into Lake Michigan.
Yeah. I thought riding my bike 70 miles sucked, but it turns out watching your phone spiral into the drink is worse.
I won’t lie, having our friend Tom dive down and find it was pretty spectacular especially since my directions regarding where it fell resembled hand flapping and general pointing in all directions. Sadly the phone is not remotely considering turning on, so I’m giving it a good soak in some dry rice to see if I can get a glimmer of something out of it. We shall see.
After all that excitement, we went sailing. Along for our three hour tour were many friends including the Namby Pamby, Kristabella, and Judgy Amie. We were treated to some wild sailing (including a few spectacular jibes that had all of us lying flat on the top of the boat so we didn’t get decked by moving parts) and splashing (seriously, I though we ordered a dry sail?) but then…the views. Oh the views.
What? I count too.
Ok, maybe not. But this does.
This is the face of someone contemplating how much this little “dropping of the phone” mistake is going to cost:
Hint: one million dollars.
Give or take.
Just think…at least it wasn’t your brand new camera in the lake. #BrightSide
I’d have a heart attack if my precious iPhone ever fell in any water substance, so I can only imagine what you went through. I just hope my phone doesn’t meet its demise before the new iPhone is released at some point this year.
I did try to console myself with that fact but…it didn’t help.
Just a helpful hint. My mom works with computers at a school. They often have wet/spilled on electronics. She collects the silica packets that come in shoes/purses and throws those in with the rice to dry out the electronics. The silica gel absorbs moisture and helps things dry out faster.
Thanks! I think the phone is dunzo though…it sat at the bottom for 20 minutes. I’m trying it though. Fingers crossed.
I still can’t believe that happened! But hey! We got to see cutie Tom without a shirt on!
I hope it works soon!
Thanks again for the invite! It was SO MUCH FUN!
We should do it again sometime but perhaps leave all the electronics on dry land.
Aww…Tom is a hero! No way I could do that. The plant life alone that is touching him freaks me out.
Total hero! The plants were…gross.
Every time I see a picture of you, your hair is a different color…
Ha! I promise this has been my hair color since May.
That stiiiinnnks! I dropped my phone in a toilet at a concert venue once (yuck)….I didn’t know about the rice thing at the time, which does work but prob not after it’s been submerged for 20 mins, but I sold my non-functioning phone to this website gazelle.com for around $100. Look into it…it will at least help pay for part of a new phone!
PS love the skyline pics!!!
Thanks!! It was so pretty. I’ve sold a few working phones on eBay, but I’ll have to try the gazelle site if they won’t let me exchange it. (Also, remember when I dropped my phone in the toilet at the Boot freshman year? Yeah I let that one go.)
It really was a GORGEOUS night. Thanks again! We had a blast.
So glad!! We had a great time too. Best view of the city!
I demand to be paid royalties for my photographs that have been used in this post.
I accept cash, Gin or more trips on the boat.
Denied.