Blogety-Blog

The temperatures here in Minneapolis were in the mid-40's yesterday. It would have been a perfect late October or early November day, only it is approaching mid-December. We'll take it, and go riding.

Kay and I did 33 miles on the Single Speed road bikes. We needed to get coffee anyway, so we rode to J&S Bean in St. Paul by way of Hopkins. It did snow here one morning last week, maybe a half-inch or so that stuck around for a few hours. The street crews really put down the road salt when that happened, probably laid down as much salt as there was snow. I think we'll leave the geared bikes in the basement for now. You can see the photos from the ride here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jkruzit/sets/72157594413649617/

In the evening we went to Caroline Yang's Tour de France Opening Party @ One On One Bicycle Studio. We walked from our house to Light Rail and took it to the event. There were tons of people leaving the Holidazzle Parade (Bah Hum-Bug) as we arrived downtown.



Some of the Warehouse-District bar patrons are an interesting type. At about 10PM, when it is dark, we must have seen 5 or 6 people wearing those big Gucci Sunglasses while walking from bar to bar. It sort of reminded me of Florence, only without the German tourists.