memorial day bike ride

 it poured during the night but the rain stopped by morning.

 in fact, the road looks dry here! i do remember passing some big puddles though.

 we biked to fika on des brosses street. greg and i came here often the summer before last when morgana and chanda had visited norway and london, and i used to come here when chanda had her joffrey summer intensive.

this is a matcha tea latte . . very green looking and very grassy tasting.

 chanda had never been and agreed that it was the nicest fika cafe. they have comfortable couch-like seats and half the store is a bakery for their pastries.

 while greg read, chanda and i texted with morgana. she and her friend had returned to bangkok after a fourteen hour bus ride from phnom penh.

 this neighborhood is really changing. 

 there are two big blocks where they blasted away the old and are starting to put up the new. i always feel so frustrated that i can never remember what the old buildings looked like when they're gone . . greg says that when he bikes down during the week to work, this section is filled with construction workers. i have no idea what is going up.

 getting ready to head back . . chanda's heavy chain and lock don't wrap easily around the bike and she has trouble with them.

i really love this neighborhood.


i love all the old buildings. not everything is landmarked . . so many could still be lost.

 do you think he had some good suggestions?

maybe so because we were soon on our way . . (note the henna tattoo from a ballet artist friend who just got accepted to FIT . . she's so talented . . i'm always admiring her instagram pics).

back uptown again . . which is really still downtown.

greg and i did a lot of dusting and vacuuming and straightening of objects in the living room while chanda was at dance class. i can't believe how ambitious we were.

it feels so good to have done a thorough cleaning.

maybe it doesn't look neater or cleaner but it is! what's important is that i know it is and it feels great and we even got rid of a few things . . (but, yes i know i have way too much wool . . . )

now to more consistently tackle other areas this summer! we even have an air conditioner if we need cool motivation . .