Raging Waters

Today a loosely organized group calling themselves "Portland Bike Party" planned to ride to multiple fountains and cool off from the 100 degree temperatures.  They dubbed their ride "Raging Waters".
The group was more mainstream than the Thursday Night Ride that I've been attending.  There wasn't a tall bike to be seen! ;-) While there wasn't the variety of bikes tonight, there was no doubt that these people were bikey.

Bill and Tess were there.

 Tess was on my soggy birthday ride in February.  Today would be soggy as well, but only because we'd be splashing around in fountains.

We pedaled along slowly and given that the fountains would be packed with kids on this very warm evening, we sent an advance party to warn parents that we were on our way.  The kids loved us..... we brought water toys!

Some of us splashed around in the water, some just watched.

After 10-15 minutes we'd ride to the next fountain.

The fountain at the Moda Center was just trickling, likely turned off for the evening.

I took the time to stop as we crossed the Broadway Bridge to get this photo. I knew I could catch back up with the group and didn't want to miss the photo opportunity.

We had one more fountain to visit yet.

The group was going to wrap up at a pizza place, but I said my good byes and rode back to Lloyd Center, where our ride had began, and my pickup was parked.

With the 5 miles I had biked earlier in the day the daily total was 18 miles.

.........road bike..........rollers.........mtb..........lifecycle.......total
  Today............18..............0...............0...............0.................18
 Jan...............765...............0...............0...............0...............765
Feb................248...............0...............0...............0................248
March...........183.................0................0..............0................183
April..............228...............0................0...............0 ................228
May................200................0...............0...............0.................200
June................199.................0..............26...............0.................199
July.................246................0...............0.................0...............246
Total............2036...............0...............26...............0..............2082