Racing the rain

Tuesdays are usually one of my days off, and as such I spend a good chunk of it on the bike in the eternal struggle to be fast. Also, I play a healthy amount of PlayStation.

Yesterday, though, found me at home with Jack, who's "sick." There are quotes there because he acts perfectly fine but is on an antibiotic. And that means no daycare. I still wanted to ride, though, and since it was a nice morning, we went.

We rode to a playground near Jack's daycare, which is just a couple of miles away. Every day he says we should ride bikes to the playground and stop for a while. So we did.


As you can see in the background, the clouds looked like rain. Armed with a little pocket radar via my Blackberry, I was trying to give Jack plenty of play time while keeping an eye on the sky. Also, we had to stop at Target on the way home.

The digger ... kids love this thing. Maybe it's pretending that they're at the helm of a backhoe or something, but Jack spent a lot of time wrestling with it.

When we finally loaded up, I was pretty sure we'd be getting wet on the way back from Target. Or, rather, I'd be getting wet — Jack has a rain cover on the Burley. But we made it to and from Target without precipitation. It was only when we sat down for lunch about 30 minutes later that it started raining.

And after that, Jack got to drift off to sleep with the sound of rain on the roof. I got my PlayStation time in, and by the way the game went, I probably should have taken a nap, too.