spontaneous outing

Friday we met our homeschooling friends at the park. We haven't seen most of them in a month! That was really nice.

In the afternoon I had plans to work on my book but I had the bright idea to ride our bikes to the downtown library. It should only take like 15 minutes but with Zoe it is more like 30.

I love our little downtown. The heart of it is only a mile an a half away from our house. The river and the East Race (a white water raceway) flows through it. There is an ice cream and candy shop - The Chocolate Factory Cafe, an interactive kids health museum, a couple parks, an old theatre, a small used bookstore, a roleplaying game store, performing arts guild, several restaurants and shops, in the winter an ice rink, and more ... it is a very small downtown but it has some nice architecture and it is very pleasant to walk around, especially by the river.

Pere's company is one the river and the bike trail from our neighborhood goes right too it.


We went to the library, visited Pere at his work, rode along the river and visited the big Enshrinement Ceremony at the College Football Hall of Fame, which is also downtown. They were having a BBQ ribs cookoff. I bought some ribs and corn and we brought it home for dinner.

On the way home we crossed all these cute bridges over the East Race.



After we put Zoe to bed we heard a ruckus from outside. Zoe called out that she was scared. We climbed the stairs and looked out the window and saw that the Enshrinement Ceremony was concluding in Fireworks. We went out on our balcony that overlooks the river and the downtown and watched the whole thing.

So I didn't get any writing done but it was a very nice day.