A Perfect Day

I had today off.  (I worked Tufts' Commencement last Sunday.  Incredible weather, fyi.)  Here's how I spent the day.  It really was perfect...

1. It began with a lazy morning of not getting out of bed for almost an hour.  (I TRY to do that when I have to work, and it doesn't always mesh well with getting to work on time or being alert.)
   
2. Greg and I had breakfast together at the Broken Yolk, an amazing hole-in-the-wall breakfast place we'd been meaning to visit for two years.  We used one of those random coupons you get in the mail in a packet of 50 other useless coupons.  I guess it was worth the few minutes it took me to sort through all the trash this time.
   
3. We took a brief saunter in the park across the street and sat on the ground leaning up against some historic tower to have our morning devotions.  God led us through some great discussions about taking rest from our work and how to build more intentional time for resting and being together into our lives.  My husband is so amazing...
   
4. Next on the agenda, we aired up our bikes and took a 12 mile ride from our place to Arlington Center and then along the Minuteman Trail.  We could not have asked for better weather!  It was such an incredible ride.  And we discovered that we're both enough out of shape that neither was bothered by our slow pace on the inclines.  My legs are a little achy tonight.
   
5. Back at Arlington Center, we grabbed a nice little lunch of yummy Thai food at Sweet Chili.  I must admit I was quite the site with my bike helmet hair and mud splattered all over my backside!  Then back to good ol' Medford we rode.
   
6. After crashing on some deck chairs for a few minutes after we got home, we determined it necessary to end our little adventure with some ice cream from Colleen's, an ice cream parlor a couple blocks from our home.  (Dangerous!  I know!  I have to walk by it twice every day!)  Greg laughed as I enjoyed my rainbow sherbert and reminisced to days of ice cream cone men at Baskin Robbin's with sis, Julie & Jenn.
   
7. Next came reading time, and Greg fell asleep while I read to him from Lewis' The Horse and His Boy.  We're really liking reading this book together.  I admit that I read an entire chapter after he fell asleep.  I just had to know what happened!
   
8. Finally, we ended the day with some great guy and girl time.  I joined Amy (and baby Audrey), Ann, Megan, and Katie on a dinner date to On the Border.  And Greg is yet to return from his poker night with the guys.  I think we girls talked about babies practically the entire night!
   

Now you tell me.  Does it get any better than that?