We participated in Bike Austin's "Hottest Day of the Year" bike ride on Saturday. The ride has a few different starting points, each at a city pool and then pool-hops its way across town until you arrive at a central location where everyone gathers for pizza and drinks. It really was a scorcher, reaching well into the upper 90s. Unfortunately, two of the three pools we were slated to visit were closed (one due to a broken pump, and the other due to thunder...) but we did have a lovely swim at the one remaining pool! Then, after the party, we had to figure out how to get ourselves home from all the way across town. Turns out that finally gave us a reason to try out the bus line that stops right in front of our house! So we hopped back on our bikes and headed a couple of miles downtown to the bus stop. It had started raining by then, so we got pretty soaked. Then we packed our three bikes onto the rack on the front of the bus, folded up the trailer, and hopped on. The bus ride was the highlight of the day for Wiley and Portia. And Graydon was a real trooper for biking the whole way (11 or 12 miles)! Ironically on "the hottest day of the year", I froze on the way home - an hour on an air-conditioned bus after a sopping wet bike ride was no fun for Mami!
