Last night while (e:paul) and (e:terry) were at a wedding, I decided to go on a bike ride with (e:yesthatcasey), (e:libertad), and our new ginger Joe friend. We rode around for a little bit before deciding to go on the new First Friday party ride.

It was really awesome. Henry from GObike just started it last month. He had a gigantic speaker in a kid's trailer to provide music. We started at Colonial Circle, rode down through the west side, up to the bike path and rose garden, and finished down at the Liberty Hound. There we met Kerry before riding home to meet Paul and Terry.

I can't wait for next month's ride. Every first friday of the month at 8pm, Colonial Circle.

The same guy that made (e:paul)'s robot shirts was chalking at the Allen Street First Friday



The theme for the ride was Hawaiian shirts and leis - the leis were pot leaves







The bike parking garage

On Monday, (e:terry) grilled and cooked out for (e:hodown) and his mom.

Watermelon, cheesy potatoes, salad, tofurky sausage and corn on the cob


(e:hodown) instagramming her food, right before her phone fell in it

Sunday, we headed over to the pride parade. (e:paul) had the great idea of using sheets to cover up the protesters - there were only about 5 or 6, so it went perfectly. (e:paul), (e:flacidness), some co-op house kid and I held the sheets and actually ended up chasing them away.



(e:paul) holding down the fort

(e:terry) throwing some shade

Afterwards was the festival down at Canalside, which had a count of 20,000 people. It was so packed.




The rest of the night was spent having a good time in the backyard. It was pretty much a perfect summer day.

Saturday, after the skyride, we went down to Allen to watch (e:heidi), (e:dianne), (e:xandra) and a bunch of other people we know march in the Dyke March. The weather was perfect and the dancing at the festival after was fun.

(e:Paul), (e:terry), (e:yesthatcasey) and I rode the GObike sky ride today. Casey and I volunteered for the preregistration and setup.

The day was perfect for a ride. The skyway itself was a anticlimactic but still very cool.

The ride was about 28 miles, and Paul managed to make it the whole way. I was proud.