Yesterday, Phil and I were supposed to meet @marick for lunch. We rode our bikes to Urbana and waited in the Casablanca Kabab House, but Marick evidently couldn't make it, so we ended up just having lunch by ourselves. Afterwards, we rode all around Urbana.
We rode first to the U of I quadrangle and then headed south. We stopped to look at sculptures in a few places: some weird blobby things that looked like proteins by some biology building and then some sculptures that were stuck off in a little annex by themselves (seemingly because the University was a bit embarrassed about owning them). We rode around in the research park where Phil's office used to be, by the Natural History Survey buildings and around the Water Survey. We got sodas and enjoyed some riparian entertainment by the new water amenities where the Boneyard has been de-tiled. We stopped by Bikeworks to thank Bruce for the help he gave me once. He just seemed kind of baffled. We stopped by West-Side Park to see the Prayer for Rain sculpture, and then headed back. It was about 15 miles altogether -- enough that I didn't feel guilty about having a bit of spumoni ice-cream after dinner.
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