Like any other major city, especially in Europe the cheapest way of getting around the city besides walking is having a bike. Joel has wanted one for a while now, but of course couldn't really afford one, and I thought I would like one because its just faster than walking sometimes. But when we talked about getting bikes, we thought well we will have to save up... maybe next year. Why so long you ask, well like everything in England bikes cost like 2-3 times as much. A nice bike, new and no flashiness costs like 200-300 pounds, that's like $600... so we thought well no that isn't possible. But then Joel's parents, Dan and Janet said they would buy us bikes of Christmas! The hunt was on, now of course we wouldn't buy the snazziest bike.. but we wanted good ones. Then Joel found this second hand bike shop that he was recommended and we went there today! And wow, we found the perfect bikes for both of us. I mean they are like exactly the fit to our personality! ANd they cost very little, both of our bikes together was less then 100 pounds! Now I want to get a basket to put on the back.. and a bell to tell people to get out of my way!
So Joel and I bought them and washed them up, and went for a great ride. A nice long bike ride. Then we needed to go grocery shopping, and normally we need to ask a friend to take us because its far away, but we biked to get our shopping.. how cool is that.
But now we are tired, a lot of biking for newbies like us!!
So as we went riding.. Joel encountered the coolest thing since sliced bread:
(Joel's words) so as you will see from the Photo my bike is a totally cool custom Chopper. I was very blessed to find it. In fact I was sure that it called my name when we found it. Anyway after we bought them we went for a little ride down the seafront to get used to our new rides. As we were Cruising along I saw this old man biking towards us. He was Riding an even more customized chopper than mine! He looked at me and my Phat Hog and gave me a nod and a hey! Probably the coolest old man in southern England, if not the world.
Merry Christmas to Joel and I from the Janet and Dan!!
this is mine (Adriel's) her name is Penelope (not Cruz) !
this is Joel's
and his cool handle bars
look how happy Joel looks
