Although many exciting and more mundane yet still thoroughly enjoyable events took place on our recent trip to California, the most personally exciting was the purchase of my new beach cruiser. Husband and I own mountain bikes, but how passe and Pacific Northwest of us. The poor things haven’t been brought out since the one time we used them in Havasu and we drove them into the house, forgetting they were even up there on the rack. Husband even gave them a new home: our roof, how sad. So as Malu was getting closer to her bike purchase, I also wanted to get a bike, but a beach bike–no complicated gears, no pretense of actual “exercise.” Just total “cruise” mentality. While in Cali, we checked out one shop, and I was pretty surprised by the prices. We hit up good old big 5 and they had one lonely lame beach cruiser. Then we found the shop where my new baby resided. The second I saw it I knew it was the only one I would be satisfied with. James made me try it out and he described that as he spoke with the young guy working there and I pulled back into view, I had a grin the size of Montana plastered on my face. Husband made one request: what kind of bargain could we get for my bike and the one Malu was stuck to, and he bought the whole shebang for us! From that point on, the three of us were cruising around the campsite, with just swimsuits and Husband on his skateboard. Malu even met a little bike-boyfriend. How cute and YAY!

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