Tuesday night, I went over to my friend Lisa's house for a sandwich dinner. (Lisa is one of my friends from my bike trip, she lived in the dorms with me last year, too.) We made plans to go on a 50 mile bike ride the following day (yesterday) with her friend from work, Kate.

The bike ride only ended up being 35 miles, but we had an amazing time. We road down Chuckanut Drive and plopped down in a field in the Skait Valley (with a view of the water and the hills we'd just rode from!) to have a picnic. We scarfed some bread w/ Tofutti cream cheese and avocados, and we also had my homemade granola with cashew butter and bananas. I love biking picnics.

We wandered inland and east, coming up along Lake Samish, where I'd never ridden. Beautiful ride, late summer trees hanging over the road and all and no cars so the three of us could take up both lanes riding side by side.

I got a ton of invites to do stuff today, so I decided to leave for camping early tomorrow 'cause it sounds like my parents are just getting to Lincoln Rock tonight and eating dinner and going to bed. So today I'm going on another bike ride with Lisa and some of her friends, then going to a potluck at Natanya's house (she's one of Lisa's friends, also riding with us today). Then Chance and I are hanging out after the potluck. Yay!

I made these reallllly good maple bran muffins today. Only problem is they didn't hold together, so I'm gonna throw 'em in a ziplock and take them as biking snacks. If I don't eat them first. Now I need to find someone else to make to take to the potluck. Maybe a chickpea dish, 'cause I have all the stuff for it. Except I suck at making Indian food (except naan bread, which I rock at... now there's a possibility!).