Day 2 of riding with Greg, Lea and Ronja. I didn't sleep very good last night because of my arm, but we don't have a lot of miles to do today, so it will be ok. After having some english muffins with some elderberry jam that Lea had brought back from Germany when she returned, we got packed up and hit the road. We had a pretty easy time getting out of the city since we had directions from Neil and there were bike paths. We rode on the interurban trail for almost the whole day. It was nice because it took us right into Seattle. Once we got off the bike path and were on the roads, the only way to go was up, and it was really steep. There were 2 big hills we had to go over on our route to our host's house, both of them had really steep hills- kind of reminded me of photos I've seen from San Francisco. We stopped at a little grocery store to grab a snack real quick since we were hungry, but didn't have far to go to get to our host's house. The steepest hill was the one to climb up to the Queen Ann Hill area. Going up was so steep in one section that 3 out of the 4 of us had to walk our bikes up. I wish I could have pedaled up because it would have been easier on my sore arm, but I just couldn't do it- Greg, who was carrying the trailer with Ronja, and Lea couldn't either- Joey on the other hand did ride up it. When we finally found the road that our host lived on, we were certain we found their house, but no one was home. It turns out that Greg and Lea were off by a couple numbers in the address and when we looked it up, we found out our real destination was just a couple houses down. It was pretty funny! When we got to Marta and Johann's house (they are not Warm Showers, but are on Couchsurfing, but were referred to us through another Warm Shower's host), Marta was home with the kids. After we got settled a little, we enjoyed some tastey bread, with cheese and watermelon in the back yard. For the rest of the day we relaxed, played with the kids (they had 3, plus Ronja), and I recuperated. Marta made some yummy pasta with chicken and mushrooms in cream sauce for dinner along with a cucumber/beet salad. After dinner the 4 of us went in the hot tub, which was great! I think it helped my arm a little too. Since we were in Seattle, Lea, Greg, Joe and I thought it would be fun to watch a movie that was filmed here- so we watched Sleepless in Seattle. Joe and Greg had gone on a walk before dinner and brought back some Doritos and Fat Tire beer (from New Belgium in CO) to enjoy as we watched. Later on, Marta and Johann joined us- which was fun because Marta explained where all of the different scenes took place. It was a very relaxing night, for sure -which was great since Greg pointed out that today was our 400th day of being married (Greg and Lea were married on the same day as us!). Marta fixed up the couches upstairs so that they made a make shift bed so Joey and I didn't have to sleep on the floor. It was a pretty good day yet again-we have had so much sunshine! We rode 28.73 miles.
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