Welcoming Change and a Weekend Review
I am pleased to announce that after checking out 4 different bike shops on Saturday, I found the Perfect Bicycle! It’s black and white and beautiful all over, with a partial step-in frame and a leather seat and handlebars. Nice and cushy! Its a retro-style cruiser bike and it is fantastic to ride. As soon as I got it I took it out for a 2 1/2 hour bike ride to test it out. I kind of forgot that I hadn’t been on a bicycle since two summers ago, so as you can imagine my butt is still sore today! While I was at the bike shop, I also picked up a new bike lock and (for all of you mothers and motherly types out there), a shiny black helmet. I’m riding in style.
I forgot how fast you can go on a bike. I can get to pretty much everywhere in the city now! My next mission is to find a basket for my bicycle to carry my lock in. And at the moment the bike is nameless, poor thing. That will have to be remedied. I’ve taken a few photos of the bike so I will be posting them later on in the day, after I’ve completed the 1,000,000 push ups that is required of the Push Up Challenge (well, it feels like that many!) and a cheerful rainy walk. This weekend was also my fathers birthday weekend (in my family we don’t approve of having birthdays on one day. It is required that birthdays be stretched out across as many days as possible), so I’ll be sure to post those photos too. We had a lovely dinner at a fine dining restaurant and wow was it wonderful to go to a restaurant that serves all of this real food that was made right there. When did that become such a novelty?
The other exciting portion of my weekend was planning for our Rome trip. The hostels have been booked and the train passes bought! Among mini goals, like the Push Up Challenge, and larger ambitions like long-term careers, its nice to have medium-sized adventures to look forward to. I have a feeling that the majority of what we do while we’re in Italy will be spontaneous choices rather than having a rigid plan, and thats just the way that traveling (and life) ought to be. Unexpected obstacles and opportunities are always cropping up so we need to work with them and find a way to build them into what we want to do. The booking of the hostels means that now we have a rough idea of our trip, but I love that there’s so much room to change it all up. When we’re living day-to-day life, we easily slip into a routine and shy away from the adventure. Because its too much work to try something new on a whim. My goal for today is to welcome the obstacles that come along and not resent them- sure, I might not get everything done today that I want to do, but the possibilities are endless in the things that I don’t have structured into today’s plan. Happy Monday!
Congratulations on the bike find. Ha! 1 million push ups is pretty hardcore :)!
Roma dovrebbe essere wonderfu!
(Rome should be Wonderful!)
Congrats on the new bike! Glad you got a helmet – I never wanted to get one, but am very glad I did due to my natural klutziness.
Have fun in Rome!
Oh, a shiney new bike. I want to see and can’t wait for the pics! Good luck in your million push-up challenge.
Rome.. how fun, wish I was going!
Yayy! 😀 Glad you found a new bike! And don’t you feel powerful now that you can bike virtually EVERYWHERE! 😉 Way better than a car, seriously.
And I agree–vacation is a time for doing whatever you feel like whenever you feel like! Have fun while you’re there 😀
Yay for the new bike! You will for sure have to give it a name. 🙂
Sounds like a cute bike. I can’t wait to see pictures.
Rome sounds fabulous. I wish I had done stuff like that before the kiddos came along. They are great, but they tend to put a cramp in your travellin’ style. 🙂
Oh your bike sounds beauteous!! And I love Rome. Will be daydreaming about your post for the rest of the day now… thanks alot;)
Sagan,
You have a mini mention in my blog today.
Best wishes,
Sharon
Yay for getting a new bike! I rode mine to my new job yesterday for the first time in a few weeks and I went so fast I had tears coming out of my eyes. And I loved it!