Bike to Errand Day

Today is Bike to Work Day, here in Indianapolis.  Yesterday was bike to errand day... for Hayes and me.  I had things to accomplish yesterday and as we have been without a vehicle for quite sometime, now, the bike was the way.  I love it.  I love taking Hayes for rides on my bike (our bike).  He loves it, too.  We had several things to accomplish and we were successful.  We even had an impromptu firetruck experience.  As we rode through the park on our way downtown, there was a whole community day thing going on.  Hayes got to see several exciting things.  A race car, a police horse, policemen, firemen, and so on....when we got to the firetruck, we saw that a fireman was helping little kids to climb up and sit inside.  We had to stop.  

 Next, it was onto the rest of our journey.  We crossed a busy avenue by way of a walking bridge.... a very graffitied bridge.  It was neat. 

 We went on our way, stopping at the jewelers for estimates on repairs for some Etsy merch and some personal items.  I also worked out a loose plan for barter and trade for their services which for the personal pieces is a luxury and not a priority right now.  She is gonna call me when she needs me!  I love a good trade!  We stopped at the courtyard behind the gallery and flower shop for our lunch and we were so lucky to get to sit with a friend of ours, Jasmine, one of the several talented designers at JP.  We hopped on and continued toward the heart of the city to pick up some prints and enter to win a camera at Robert's Camera.  

By the time we were finally on our way back, Hayes was tuckered out.  He fell asleep.  I am glad that I had one of his "nose rags" as we call it... little baby receiving blankets that Hayes uses for handkerchiefs....(and for comfort, too).  His little helmeted head was bobbling around--not comfortable for him--and now, as he is much bigger than last summer (the last time he rode and fell asleep riding behind me)... his movement definitely effects the overall motion of the bike.  It helped.  It didn't stay put, but I could reach back and pull the blanket back over his helmet every time I could feel that instability creeping back in.  As you can see in the image, too, his little shoulder was breaking out of his harness...eeeekk!!  He was fine.

I just realized that Hayes is wearing a firetruck shirt that was covered by a jacket when he was in front of the firetruck... darn.  Oh well.  

We will not be biking to work today, though.... we will be driving (I am so excited to get to work!!! It has been so long because the transmission shop we falsely trusted has essentially ruined my van.) (as the salon is a bit far to bike for a couple of hours of work)  and we are driving today not because my van is fixed... but because my generous parents met us at Middle Road, Indiana last night to loan us a car that they just bought.  Yup.  They are the greatest.  We are so fortunate.  So, so fortunate.