Bike ride and pan-fried french fries

Yesterday was a holiday, so M is taking a 4-day weekend, and I have both Thursday and Friday free. The weather was beautiful yesterday, perfect for a bike ride. I have dreamed about biking with Ais,  going down to the water and just being out in nature, and doing something together that we all enjoy, so yesterday was really perfect in every way. There are lots of nice trails and paths for biking where we live, and lots of them close to water with really beautiful views. We were out for about 2 hours and Ais was such a trooper and only complained a little bit ;) She also tackled going down quite a steep hill, and scared the crap out of me while she was going down, but she made it.

We had my friends Lanna and Michael over for dinner yesterday evening and of course, just because we were having guests over, the main electricity fuse blew and the oven stopped working, a couple of outlets were without electricity as well (specifically the ones the electric grill was plugged into!) and the lights in the living room were out! Yay! So we made pan-fried french fries :), plugged the fridges and grill into extension cords and had rhubarb pie and vanilla ice cream by candle light. It turned out to be lovely and cozy and yummy anyway. Early this morning the electrician came by and replaced the fuse, so it's all back to the way it should be.