Happiness is a long bike ride
Perfect day, great weather and a sunburn to show for it. After bacon-egg-&-cheese sandwiches, we went biking for hours — through South Boston, all around Castle Island and the beach, then downtown, the financial district, the Common, the south end, back to Dorchester. I love humanity, and there was so much of it at Castle Island: kids with adults, old people with other old people, families from all over the world, pets, babies, fishing poles, rollerblades. No frills. This is not the snooty Cambridge crowd: these are working people with cut-offs and used Toyotas and melting soft serve and half-smoked cigarettes, 14-year-olds with braces serving french fries. Biting flies. I loved it.
We also saw Little Miss Sunshine later on, which I totally didn’t expect to be as funny as it was. But it was…even though it follows in the currently hip theme of “ambiguous time period/70s overtones/an ecclectic collection of people experience life together while indie music (Sufjan, in this case) plays in the background”. Still, go see it. Everyone laughed out loud through most of the film.
In other news, there’s little other news. I’m still working on my watercolor interpretation of our gorgeous $10 orchids. We’re going swimming in a lake tomorrow, then to an 80-year-old’s birthday party. I really couldn’t ask for more. I absolutely love the summer.
