Best day EVER!

Some of you may recall a previous post (Aug 06) with a similar title. This last Saturday really was the best day EVER though.

I’ve been a bit of a lame princess of late. I hurt my neck in May and was incapacitated for a couple of months there. Then work became thoroughly insane and then I was on the road for three weeks straight and then I got sick with a death cough for a couple of weeks.

So my whole “exercise routine” was disrupted. I managed a run here or there and a little bit of the gym from time to time but nothing significant really. And when I don’t exercise I feel… bad. Sort of like I’ve been beset my demons in fact. I get moody, stressed out, irrationally irritable and overly angry at nothings. And then I see what is happening and just feel bad and sad and even start to cry sometimes. Yeah, no good at all.

So I need to exercise. And I’m better now (both my neck and the cough) and Saturday we had a most glorious bike ride. We did a 40-ish mile ride from Hood River toward The Dalles and back. It was a sharp fall day sparkling with sunshine, I was on my brand new bicycle (her name is Babette), I was with my Christopher and a friend and we were on one of the most fun and beautiful rides around. The path was mostly along the Historic Columbia River Highway and follows the massive river along the stunning cliffs of the gorge. Generally there are huge winds (making it a premier wind surfing destination) and as we were driving out there had some serious gusts. But while we were riding we had hardly any wind at all. And it is a great, winding, hilly ride with very little traffic. It was a fairly challenging ride as I haven’t done more than a few short, flat rides since May and this had some notorious climbs. But I love feeling that kind of exhausted so it was good.

As if that isn’t enough to make Saturday the best day EVER we topped it off with a visit to Full Sail Brewing in Hood River where we had great beer, great food, bought beer to take home, were given free beer to take home and through it all enjoyed another splendid view of the river.

And THEN we stopped at the Apple Valley Country Store to get frozen marionberry pies for Thanksgiving, huckleberry jam, apples, pears and a marionberry milkshake!

And THEN that night we went to a Halloween party where everyone was dressed up. I LOVE Halloween.

Saturday was a very good day.