Whee!!

I had a great day today.  I went win­dow shop­ping at the Christ­mas Vil­lage, snug­gled on the couch with a kitty, ate really good Chi­nese food, and gen­er­ally enjoyed get­ting out of the house for a bit.  But the unex­pected high­light of the day was when I rode on the back of a motor­cy­cle for about five cir­cles of a very small park­ing lot today in the moonlight.

I never thought I would have the slight­est inter­est what­so­ever in any­thing like that, and I even climbed on the back just to humor my friend show­ing off his new toy.  I am shocked with how much I enjoyed those three min­utes.  Even bet­ter, Chris didn’t freak out a bit when I finally let loose all the excite­ment I was try­ing to con­tain.  I had been a bit wor­ried about his reac­tion, espe­cially when I said that there was a chance I could do it again, on the real open road. Nope.  The most I got out of him was a very con­fus­ing, “Yeah, that’s not sur­pris­ing.  I always knew you’d dig a motor­cy­cle.  You’re the vale­dic­to­rian who dri­ves up on her Harley to give the address.”

I don’t really know what that means, exactly but now I’ve got a whole new fast motor­ized toy to fan­ta­size about, and it’s much more acces­si­ble to me than get­ting my own airplane!