my bike and me

So I have decided I need to start writing about my many biking anventures. As many friends might know Matt and I have been car-less for quite some time. Its a pain when we are trying to get somewhere more then twenty minutes away but we have been managing via my bike and the bus.


Adventure number one:


The other day I went grocery shopping. Normally this isn't much of a problem, I limit what I am buying to what can fit in my basket. Sometimes, however, I get distracted in Smiths and go a little over board. During this particular trip I was buying stuff I needed for preschool, mainly eggs! I had been teaching the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty and I wanted to do and activity where they could really drop eggs and see what happened. Could they put it back together again? So I decided to buy a great big thing of eggs, a pack of two and a half dozen. We were also going to be having a waffle party because we had been learning the letter w. So i grapped some frozen waffles with, of course, some whipped cream, butter and syrup. Then I went and got some milk Matt and I were in desperate need of. As a walked up to the counter I was sucked into the sale area where I just had to buy a couple of bags of the quakers rice cake snacks. ( I love them so much) I paid for it all then headed out to my bike....that is when I realized there was no way all of this stuff would fit in my little basket. After a long sigh I got to work trying to figure out how to make it all fit. After a couple of attempts, one broken bag and having my bike fall over twice I came up with a solution. Waffles in the basket (they where kind of heavy), milk and snacks hanging from one handle, waffle toppings on the other, eggs on my seat and I then proceeded to push my bike home. It was quite funny and I felt very embarrassed when I passed over University Ave but I did it.