wednesday goodness

yesterday was a good day. steve and i went on a road ride in the morning. kim brought me out to steve's on the way to the mall, and i stole a saddle from steve for to put on the road bike. post mall going and returning homing, steve and i headed out and did a nice relatively leisurely sugar bottom loop, heading back in by way of mehaffey rd and the bike path.

i had a quick nap, and ran some errands around town.

then off for the friday night fixie ride.
we saw a turtle.
we named him snappy von snap snap.

then we made it out to north liberty for some iguanas. and our usual waitress finally remembered us. although she did it on the sly. namely just brought us our usually requested pitcher of water without being asked. sneaky. i ate a bit too much. turns out two chimichangas are all that one needs to acheive food-itary happiness. three is one too many. and four, well that's just out of the question. hopefully i'll learn my lesson this time.

the ride back was nice. i wasn't present but chris had a nasty (at least the after effects looked nasty) fall. but he is a tough old bird and rolled right on back with us. upon arrival at our self-proclaimed foot-down circle, i spotted wet sidewalks (*thank you university sprinkler system!*) and thought it might just be the perfect time for to learn to skid. and it was. micheal and i spent a good long while skidding on the wet pavement. and even had us a nice little informal contest, at which i failed miserably. but that's okay. because...I CAN SKID now! and while detrimental to my tires, skidding is fun. chris even hung out and watched us skid around. we met a nice lady with two nice dogs, one being a husky puppy...which loved to play in the sprinklers. <---quite possibly the cutest thing ever. how silly is it that i want to go back again and skid around in the sprinklers? me = nerd.

and to top off an already nice evening, we finished it with some ice cream at the dq. i love kiwi-strawberry slushies. and as a result of our evening i got a solid 4 hours of sleep last night, a bruise on my right thigh where i braced my leg on the bars while skidding, and a sore bottom from a 50+ mile day on my bikes. thankfully bottom soreness has pretty much passed, and i'm about to remedy the short sleep time, but my leg leaves much to be desired. oh well, I CAN SKID! i'm sooo happy.