A Whole New World

Some couples get married. Some couples have babies. Some couples buy houses. No, it's not a magic carpet but close - we got a red Ninja 250.

I'm just going to be a passenger (please, I can barely drive a car). But, M will be heading off to motorcycle school and getting her motorcycle endorsement in a couple of weeks. Poor thing can't wait to ride her bike and sits on it whispering, "vroom, vroom."

Similarly to when I started to snowboard, preparing for riding has launched us into full gear mode. We've been searching for helmets, jackets, gloves and, of course, boots. We've gotten great advice from friends and have been tearing up the interweb. The fun part about the search is going to various bike stores and talking to people. We went to the local bike place and discovered Wednesday night bike night. All kinds of people who would probably have never spoken a single word to each other, ride in, eat free food (wings from Hooters!) and watch awesome stunts. Sometimes bike night even takes place at Hooters! This is going to be a lot of fun.