~ hot weekend ~

Temperatures soared into the 90's this HOT weekend. I am now making the transition to always carrying sunscreen with me and am developing my annual summertime flip-flip calluses.

For all of you fashion-conscious, Josh has started wearing fantastic lavendar v-neck t-shirts in soft cotton. I think that he looks great in lavendar. The color goes well with his skin tone and hair, and it's a great color going into the summertime months.

In the way of mountain biking...On Friday, I was able to get off work a bit early and we went on a mounain bike ride in the hot heat. My face became very red and my head felt like it was cooking on the inside. As a result, it was decided that now's the time to start up the morning bike rides to avoid the heat.

Thus, on Sunday we met up at 8:30 and rode Hard Guy. Hard Guy is one of those higher trails which I have never seen that many other people enjoy. I think in all of the times I have ridden it, I have never seen more than five other people on the trail during a ride. On Sunday, I was floored by how many other bikers there were. For one, there appeared to be a big group ride of dudes grunting up the trail. But there were also just loads of other mountain bikers. And a few dudes on singlespeeds, which I thought was crazy. Anyhoo, it was great that we headed out on our ride so early, because we were able to beat the heat. I wish that I knew what the elevation was that we climbed. At the top, there was a significant temperature decrease as well as snow. Considering that I have not been doing all that much riding, I am not exactly in Hard Guy shape and I was exerting an extraordinary amount of energy trying to grunt to the top and I had to take more breaks than I normally do. In fact, for the rest of the day, I felt pretty exhausted and beat up from the ride. That said, boy, did I have the most amazing fun on the bonzai downhill! I would like to take a few minutes to go on and on about how much fun I had on the downhill, but there are no words to describe even the rush in my gut that I feel just remembering the fun.

After the ride, we enjoyed a morning coffee experience and I partook of some extensive knitting, without a care in the world. I am on the last stages of two knitting projects that I am very excited about. Photos coming soon!

Later in the afternoon, Josh and I went to the Botanical Gardens out by the Old Penitentary where they were having some "Museum Fair" which was free to the public (always nice!) and had exhibits from all of the different museums. These photos on this post are from that experience at the Gardens. It was a lovely afternoon. The flowers were so pretty and fragrant and I felt very relaxed. We also took a few minutes to explore the Old Prison a bit. More photos are on my flickr deal, as usual. After we left the Gardens, we went for dinner and some beers (ahh!...nothing is better than a cold beer on a hot day!) and then played smashmitten in one of my neighborhood parks.

On Saturday, I spent the day getting my life back together. I've been so busy lately, as I've mentioned on more than one occasion, that my life has fallen into complete disarray. It really took me the entire day to put everything back together - - just so much to do!

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