gotta love the paradox of laying on the beach when there's still snow on the mountain

lots of delicious dinners out, laying by the pool at my mom’s hotel, pedicures (Margarita’s first!) and a lovely bike ride up to the University.  Margarita went to UNLV and had never been up here.  So among her weekend of firsts, she wanted to see the beautiful campus of my alma mater.

from the north end, up by the knowledge center

So, Margarita hadn’t been on a bike since middle school!  That’s almost as long as it was for me.  But she was very brave and wanted to ride to UNR.  It was a beautiful, quiet Saturday ride through downtown Reno.  We rode around the campus for a bit and then back down.  We stopped at the River Walk and then to home for some R&R (this was where the pedicures and poolside relaxing came in).

i had no idea i was in this photo, but isn't the river pretty?!

I have to say, it is feeling pretty good to feel like I know what the hell I’m doing when I’m on that “little red bike with a basket.”**  And at this point, I’m just trying to spread the love.  Love of cycling, that is.  You just can not beat that feeling of riding in to work and not needing coffee.

**that is the top search term for finding my blog–how cool is that?!

my faja and his girlfriend, karen

Oh right, and Brad graduated from UNR on Saturday, which was nice.  It’s graduation, y’know.  REALLY hot day, forever long ceremony.  It was crazy how hot it was this weekend, actually!  Luckily we were in the shade, but it was way too hot for May.  I’m glad it’s back to 83 today   Anyway, he just happened to be like 10th from the last person called.  Out of almost 2,000 people.  We barbecued, drank beer, got a little sunburned in the backyard.  Good times.

So anyway, for some reason, we just did not make it out to ride our bikes.  We did however make it to the hardware store to buy supplies for my new planter box (!!)  We are very excited to start growing stuff   Brad figures we’ll start with some herbs and then plant some onions, garlic, shallots, etc. in the fall.

My dad had my car Monday morning so I was forced to ride to work.  Which is definitely a good thing because I am confident I would not have done so otherwise.  Definitely also contributed to my riding this morning as well.  Today, I VOLUNTARILY went a different way which involved two very large hills.  Okay, not “very large” but pretty big for me.  In the morning.  Before food.  And coffee.  Go me.

Dad and Karen come back from Calif. tonight, so probably no ride, but hopefully we’ll do our “long” ride one day soon.    Brad, if you are reading this, note the sad face!  Kidding!