Girliest day ever.

Sunday, 10 August: We started the day at Kopi Cafe, a mostly vegetarian restaurant/ juice bar/ coffee and tea shop in Andersonville, an area that has a Capital Hill vibe. I would highly recommend it. We moved on to Andersonville Galleria, which sells a bunch of arty kinds of things. I was enchanted by some items that were made out of old records and bike parts, especially a picture frame made of a bike chain around a picture of the Fat Tire logo. I was not planning to buy anything, but then I ran across my new favorite T-shirt (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26490833@N02/2750946749/) and justified the purchase by telling myself that not only is it small and will fit in my luggage, but I only had one non-technical T-shirt for city wearing which was already starting to grow tiny holes.

We decided to go full blown splurge and I got my very first pedicure. Dark blue polish, to match my bike...

Then it was off to the bike shop to pick up a few things my cousin needed to make her old rickety bike more user friendly. I got to be the mechanic, which was fun for me, because I didn't get time to mess around with my old bike before I left, and I'm afraid to do anything to my new bike, since it is already perfect and I don't want to weird it up. I was able to make some improvements to her bike, although I would love to have another week or two to learn how to make it even better. I never thought I would turn into one of those bike geeks, but I guess spending so much time with mine is causing a shift in attitude.

I was going to refer to the mechanic part of the day as the non-girly part, but then I decided not to sell my gender short. I had a super girly day.