6.18 miles today. I took my 8-year-old son for his first "out of the neighborhood" ride. We rode along the canal and to a park with a lake that we live near. We stopped for a while so he could play on the playscape and have a snack, and then we headed home. I tried to stop for lemonade on the way back, but for whatever reason my credit card wasn't working. Some very nice man in the store offered to buy our drinks for us, but I declined, explaining that we had plenty of water with us (I think he was concerned that we *needed* something to drink). My son was very cool about the whole thing (surprisingly) and we both agreed that the stop in the a/c was still rejuvenating. Then we headed home, to find that we were locked out of the house (boo), but that my husband was only a couple of minutes away because he went for a donut run with our younger son (yay).

Temp was 90 when we left at 7:30 and pushing 100 by the time we got back at 9:30. I'll be so glad when summer is over.