Today is our 20th anniversary. We used to celebrate by going back to the rose garden in Pasadena where we were married to share some champagne and wedding cake, which the bakery that made our original cake provided in a much smaller version for anniversaries.
We are nowhere near Pasadena, and we don't have any champagne, so to celebrate today we took a nice long bike ride on a lovely day for biking.
We rode to Bellville and to Lexington again, and then we continued on to the end of the trail in Mansfield at North Lake Park.
In Mansfield we took surface streets to the Athens Greek Restaurant, where we enjoyed some interesting unfamiliar flavors. Everything was yummy, especially the baklava diamond for dessert!
At North Lake Park, the waterfowl seem to thrive.
Back at Bellville we stopped at the Dairy Belle for hot fudge sundaes.
Our total round trip was about 37 miles, very close to the length of the August ride on the Katy Trail. We are pleased to report that our legs held out fine (although we do have some saddle soreness....).
Along the way we saw lots of flowers and trees and several chipmunks dashing across the path. One nearly met an untimely end under my bike tire, but I braked and missed it by inches. Birds sang to us from all sides. We saw lots of robins and a couple of cardinals. Ken saw what was probably a woodchuck scurrying across the path. Yesterday we saw some deer.
Today was a wonderful day!
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