I drove a car yesterday for the first time in about 2 months.
That might be an exaggeration. But that's what it felt like. I forgot how to put it in drive.
Since I bike to work every day, I have been biking quite a few other places as well. I biked all the way to Lake Nakomis last week to check out a new coffee shop, the Angry Catfish Bicycle Shop + Coffee Bar (since it was a bike shop too I felt that driving there would be quite tacky). It was really interesting, but felt more like a bike shop that happens to serve delicious coffee then a coffee shop that happens to have a bike shop too. If you know what I mean.
I also do quite a bit of biking at night. I have found that though everyone seems to think it's dangerous for a 20-year old girl to be biking at night alone, it is almost my favorite time. I bike home from work around the lake, and the city lights on the water look like a glitter-covered dance floor, and make me wanna pull over and bust a move in this gigantic ballroom I seem to have all to myself. The crickets in the bushes have a constant buzz, and it's like they are cheering me on while I bike (either that or they are wondering who this interloper is to their nighttime festivities). Even though the occasional couple making out on a bench by the lake make me want to hurl on them, I love the feeling of being the only one who gets to see this beauty. Like, this city is MINE, man. It's secrets are all mine and I love it. I belong here.
In other news, I love seafood. You know how when you are forced to eat something day after day, you kinda get sick of it? Not me, I ate seafood for almost every meal this summer and I couldn't get enough. Monday was my last day of work at the Tin Fish on Lake Calhoun (best place to get a fish taco EVER, people. I'm not just saying that cause I work there.) and besides the people I work with, the thing I will miss the most is those dang fish tacos. What. The. Heck. Best things ever.
I go back to school soon, and I will miss the biking everywhere. I will miss the lakeside kayaking, eating fish and beachgoing. I will miss the sound of the sailboats' masts clinking, and the sailors that come to the restaurant to fill up on Diet Coke. I will miss the walking into uptown after work for Tea Garden, H&M and Mesa Pizza. I will miss the Ice Cream truck and the boat launch. I'm gonna miss this place.
xoxo, Twin Cities
