Bumpy Rides

Molly and I took our first bike ride on Constitution Trail on Thursday. First we had to make a stop at the bike shop so Molly could get her flat tire fixed. We were there for quite a while and made friends with all of the employees. They were so in awe of our beautiful vintage bikes and couldn't believe we only paid $5 for them. The ride was so much fun and we took the trail all the way out until we couldn't go any farther! Hello silos, cornfields, and FS grain elevator! Molly says, "Wow, is this what it's like to live in the country?" Sure is. The craziest part is when the trail goes under the overpass of I-55. It sounds like you're in the middle of a battle field! We met a lot of interesting characters on the path and saw some really cute houses along the trail. We think we should try to make friends with the ones with the in-ground pools and basketball courts in their backyards! Going out it seemed like the trail was a million miles long but coming back it seemed so much shorter. So we rode around town a bit, stopped for a sandwich at the Garlic Press, and rode back to Molly's apartment where we sat in the wonderful air conditioning and played some intense games of Mario Cart. (All of this happened after the wonderful wipe out on the quad.) So it turned out to be a pretty great day with tons of bike riding and countless battle wounds. I'm still finding more and more bruises all over my legs. It's cute.

Last night as we were leaving Shakes Fest, Molly called and asked if Jeff and I would like to go with her and some other friends to Grady's family fun park. Umm...of course we would! This place is so ridiculous and I can't believe we never knew it existed. It's like a permanent little carnival/amusement park with miniature golf, batting cages, a carousel, tilt-a-whirl, race cars, bumper cars, and bumper boats. It totally felt like high school all over again but it was ridiculously entertaining!! First we did the bumper cars and it was just the 6 of us in there so we just went all out crashing into each other and shooting lasers. It was a good thing Jackie and Robby showed up because when I put my $20 in to get one ticket, it gave me $20 worth of tickets!! Crap. But I got them all sold so it was good. Next we did the bumper boats. We could see that we were going to get a little wet from the giant dinosaur spraying water in the middle of the pool, but we thought it could be avoided if we really didn't want to get wet. We couldn't have been more wrong. Each boat has its own sprayer AND there are sprayers outside the pool for people to walk up to, put in a quarter, and spray all of us. So basically the ride turned into a battle between the 6 of us and the guys outside the pool that were absolutely ruthless! The boats were also difficult to steer so once you got stuck over by the sprayers it was very hard to get away! Needless to say, we were all completely soaked by the time we got out of that pool! I looked like a drowned rat and I think I got the worst of it. I decided to sit out for the race cars and dry out a bit. Now you know what 6 20/21 year-olds do on a Friday night during the summer... What. A. Riot.