Words to Describe the Weekend: Sun & Bikes!

Thor and I had been eye balling the weather forecast allllll of last week - but I was trying not to let myself get too excited about the double blazing suns until late Friday night when they were still in the forecast for Saturday/Sunday.  Thor organized a Tireless Velo group ride out at Syncline for Saturday - so we were really happy to have nice weather for everyone rolling out to join us.   First stop - Dan & Laurie's house to pick them up - along with super shredder Rachel who I haven't ridden with in almost a year. Waaaay too long!  I love the way bikes look stacked across the back of a truck. I think I probably have this exact same picture from about 25 different places - i know it's the same composition, but I just can't stop myself. 

We headed out to Syncline early and headed out on a large loop from Hospital - over the top and down Cry Baby - back up and out to Loose Lucy and over to Hidden Valley and down to the very bottom, and then we turned around and climbed all the way back up Cry Baby and rode back over and down Hospital.  So fun!  We ended up with about 28 miles of riding and ~6600' of climbing!!! Oof - I was tired by the end of the day - but it was fantastic!  Off to Double Mountain for a bite to eat and good times chatting with our friends - such a lovely day.

Sunday we got up early and rolled out on a mellow road ride with William and Adele - they split off about half way through so Adele could get to work - but it was a real treat to get to spin with them for a bit in the sun. We headed out along Marine Drive towards Troutdale and then back. About 45-miles total and I would have gone longer - the temperature was absolutely perfect!  Yard work called to us though - so we spent the afternoon adding soil to our raised beds, weeding, planting ferns, mowing the lawn, and potting some little plants I bought with my mom at Joy Creek Nursery about a month ago.  It felt great to be out in the yard - I haven't been interested at all in doing any gardening so far this year in the terrible weather we've been having - but the sun woke up the gardening bug again!

People weaving their way down Cry Baby - a little blurry!

Emily - practicing her wide arms!

The view out east along the Columbia

Sarah & Em. love these two!

Post pizza. There are some great faces in this picture. I'm not entirely sure what i'm so excited about...maybe the fact that we'd just decided to go get ice cream? although i would think that news might have made Thor look happier.

 

Me - riding along the Columbia.

Ant madness!  Check out this fury of ants on the sidewalk around the corner from our house - they were the craziest jumble!