Bike Ride and Swim

Friday the 26th

The weather is still holding up nicely. It's cool enough in the morning for the heat to come on for about an hour then the sun takes over and around noon we switch to A/C. I think we have a permanent feature programmed into our morning alarm clock. Seems that 6:00 AM when the sun comes up is the new get up time. Oh well, just gives us more day to enjoy, heh, heh.

We went out after lunch for a ten mile bike ride through the agricultural fields. Some of the roads are in really bad shape due to all the heavy trucks running on them and also affected by the rain, which though not necessarily all that heavy, doesn't soak in. There is a lot of clay in the soil and when it does rain the trucks continue to pound the roads damaging the underlayment and breaking up the asphalt. For cars and trucks it's not too bad but for skinny tire bikes it's murder.

After e returned from our ride we changed into our swim suits, grabbed our towels, books and a pop and headed for the pool. The pool was divided in two with a volleyball net on one side. There must have been twenty people playing volleyball and having a really great time. We went in for a dip in the other half but only stayed in for about fifteen minutes. The temperature must have been almost 90 degrees! Getting out we spent another fifteen minutes in the hot tub before retiring to our table and chairs where we sat reading and watching the volleyball game.

Riding back to the coach we changed clothes and drove to the Imperial Mall to see Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief. It was pretty good flick. I have read the first four books in the series and they did a good job converting the first book into a screenplay. After the movie we went to an Italian restaurant for dinner - it was good but nothing to write home about.

By the time we got home it was 7:30 PM and the kids were really hungry!! So we ed them dinner, took them out for a walk and settled in for the evening, watching the Olympics.

No photos today.