We decide to ride our bikes to the Senior Breakfast Buffet at the Diamond Lake Resort 3 miles down the road. Then we finish the other 8 miles of the 11 mile bike loop around Diamond Lake. What a pleasure to not have to deal with cars. Twice we cross over the main road, but the rest of the time all we have to deal with is other bikers, and a few walkers.
It is a beautiful day, 76 degrees, and lovely scenery greets us, ranging from small creeks and lakes to meadows, to pine forest. We see some of the same hot pink wildflowers we had seen in Alaska years ago.
When we get back to the Resort, we order a Veggie Pizza to go, for lunch. Then we take it easy after such strenuous activity in the early part of the day, catching up on laundry and blogging.
It is weird being 10 feet from another residence. You can see into their windows and hear everything they say. Most people are friendly, but you know you are never going to see them again. Some just stare at you when you walk by. Seems like those are mostly people not from the US.
At sunset we go back there a third time to get ice cream. We sit on the giant logs at lakeside and watch the fishermen bring in their catches of salmon and perch. Only those who venture out to the middle of the lake in boats catch anything. The fish are not biting in the shallows, we are told.
What a day! Here we are allowed to have campfires, which Bob loves, so we gather our kindling and then sit around the fire and relax, watching the stars come out. We make S'mores.
Then Bob goes to bed and I watch videos for an hour and a half or so before I'm ready to turn in. This has become my usual pattern, since I am a night owl.
If we have wi-fi, I can watch my favorite shows on Hulu. It normally takes an hour and a half to watch a 43 minute show without commercial interruption because the wi-fi connection is usually "low" or "fair" and the show will pause for 30 seconds about every 5 minutes. It's annoying, but I'd rather endure that than read. That's my anti-intellectual stance in life.
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