To the market we go...

I remember riding my bike to a little corner store in the summertime for a cold treat and thinking that was just the greatest adventure. We lived in a couple places where this was possible and often used to do it when we visited Jewel and Paw Paw at the Harlingen Country Club. Today was a really warm day and the kids and I decided to ride to the Redmond Farmer's Market. We started by the wineries in Woodinville and took the rivertrail to Redmond. It was a great workout for me because Nina, Rollin, and all our snacks added some good resistance. The big reward when we arrived hot and sweaty was a shaved ice snowcone. Sela commented on how good the snowcone was and that if we had driven, she would have probably been cold when she ate it. We got a huge bag of sugar snap peas and a pound of rainier cherries for the trip home and headed back. Unfortunately, we got a bit of a late start and it was very hot riding back in the heat of the day. The whole outing took us about 3 hours. Sela is a trooper though and didn't complain even though we were both tired at the end. We stopped a few times under bridges to rest in the shade.