A Good Trip, and an Idiot

First the good trip part:

Iliacat loves bike rides. So today she wheedled me into going with her.

It only took us about a half hour to ride from home, past the Bike Shop (have I told you my Ray's story?) to see if they could fix my brakes (they couldn't, but I can bring it in for a tune up, which I think I will) to the local Nature Center down the excellent bike trail.

The phone-camera was in the backpack on the way there, duh. I should've taken pictures, it's a great trail. I should have taken the REAL camera, really. Because the phone makes us pay to get them, and then they look like they were taken either with a camera-phone or with state-of-the-art digital cameras from the early 90's. Ha ha! So next time I'll take it, I promise. But once we got there I thought we should send a pic home to The Grand Lunar.

Here we are when we got there:

Do I look sunburned? Oh, and excuse the fly-away-post-helmet head. Helmet Hair is Safe Hair, I always say.

But then we spent longer trying to send it, punching the tiny little buttons and not knowing what we were doing, than the ride out.

Eventually we conversed by text and got the picture sent. Twice. Ooops.

Then we rode home, the long way, going past the bizarre Overlook Park which overlooks (sounds nice so far, doesn't it? If I hadn't said bizarre? ) the chemical cooling ponds and plant. Yes, it really does. You can kind of see the chemical plant and ponds here. Well, you can see the ponds easily, but maybe you wouldn't have guessed they were chemical cooling ponds. Or something. I'm not really sure what they are. Actually, I think they're full of magic algae that eat the toxic waste or something. Maybe dad will tell us.

Here's where the scary ominous clouds looked pretty cool:

Here's Ilicat on the funky three legged foot bridge in our town. Well, foot and bike. I think you're allowed to ride over it. We did.

Oh, we're going for a walk to the park, so I'll have to tell you about the IDIOT later.