Hopefully more love than hate...

I couldn't help it okay! I got "cookied". Here's the deal. Thanks to the incredible perks of Ceci's job, she got to get a new amazing retro bike. I went over to her house to see it, took a short bike ride with Elliana, and fell in love with the bike. Now, I have had a love-hate relationship with bikes. Of course, there were the glory days when Laura Unger and I used to tool around the neighborhood, no-handed, and grind 90 degree turns into her dirt driveway. Then, there is the bike that my host mother forced me to ride to school every day in Germany- even through the snow. And I decided that I didn't like bikes. But... sigh... that bike of Ceci's... the thought of a Holland summer day... sigh. So I researched retro bicycles on-line yesterday. Then, I found out all the great ones were way too expensive to get anyway. So I decided against it. But today, when I logged into Amazon to look for a totally unrelated book, the picture of this bike popped up (like a "sign" or "omen" or... perhaps Amazon had just cookied me. You know, kept track of my internet searches like Big Brother). And it was cheap, and I bought it! So, here's my new bike!!! The seat, granted, is not the plush comfort of Ceci's. But it is the beginning of my return to bicycle love.