Sometimes football practice being cancelled can be a blessing.  Yes, even for me, a great football fan.  Because of the strong thunderstorms we had earlier today, my son's afternoon football practice was cancelled because the fields were too wet up at the school.

So, after dinner we went on a bike ride instead.  Nevermind that I hadn't been on one in AGES!  I rode like an old pro!  I loved telling the story of how I even got my bike!  My son thought it was pretty cool that I WON my Trek mountain bike during a prize giveaway MANY years ago at the Limited store.  They were having this promotion where everyone that came into the store got a  little scratch-off ticket that would reveal 10%, 20%, 50% off clothes or even other cool prizes like a Trek bike and sunglasses, and such.  I, coincidentally, was the winner of the bike!  It was cool to win something like that at my age.  I think I was maybe 18 or so.

Some 18 years later I am now looking forward to keeping its tires aired up and going on frequent bike rides with the kids as long as the weather is nice.  Which probably won't be for long.  But that's a whole other blog post!