cortina my lover

so..a few months ago i wrote this post.

i never actually thought i would get that bike, i just liked the fact that it looked like my taiwan one.

(in case you forgot what it looked like

..and remember i'm on a mission in this photo so stop judging me)

after much research and serious consideration i decided that i really did like

that bike best and so i began looking where i could get one in utah.

the one store that carried bianchi bikes in utah valley only sold

road bikes. i was devastated! but then i realized in the locator thing i had 

only put in for them to find me locations within 20 miles of my house. 

so i took that off and then there popped up a location in sugar house!!

i immediately called them and they informed me they had two cortina turismo

bikes that had come in that very day but one was already sold!

i told him i would be there the very next day to see the other one and 

he promised not to sell it. 

 

so this day (the next day) i came up and took it for a test ride. 

it felt so great! but i wasn't sure if i was sold on the navy, i had really

wanted the beige one so i put $50 down on it and said i would be 

back monday to either get the bike or get my money back.

as i drove away i saw this and felt like maybe it was fate?

so after thinking about it for two days i went back with my bf emily 

(and the cutest baby ever hinckley!)

she is always with me for all my major purchases 

(like my imac last year, but that time baby hinckley was inside her body!

so i was happy he could make it this time as a real human)

and there it is! just bein mine!

(big thanks to ry guy for letting me borrow his car and having

a bike rack. don't actually know how i would have got it home without it)

to celebrate we went to costa vida

(and i had to park and position myself so i could watch it the whole

time out of pure paranoia that someone would steal it)

yay for finally buying a bike!

and yay to momma jan and papa tom for funding this bike!

graduating from college is the best!

the week i bought it it rained everyday and the weather was awful. but it stopped for an hour or two

so we went on a little date.

we biked up to the orchards to see how they would look for this shoot

and we saw deer!!

then i rode past the old yellow house to feel sad and saw our

old neighbors outside their old house! 

i blogged all about the exciting event here. 

they loved cortina!

that weekend we went biking with miss allison frost and her bike and got

sno cones! it was a great reunion for all of us. 

allison had to leave and i had time to kill so i biked up to the mtc to see 

how long it would take if i biked to work. it wasn't even that bad!

so i went the extra mile and went to cyd's house to visit! 

it was a really really productive afternoon. 

since then i have successfully rode to the mtc multiple times! 

it isn't very fun because it is all up hill but it makes me feel

like i'm a missionary again and that makes me happy.

she loves having all those friends! 

and being so good looking!

i love cortina. 

our other adventures will be documented in other posts,

and there are many more to come! 

 and if you ever want to meet cortina just come ova! 

we'll go on a bike ride.