Saturday Dealership Ride

March 31, 2012
Colorado, USA

We celebrated Tim's first Saturday off since the end of January with a dealership ride. Thunder Mountain Harley-Davidson was having a Spring Ride Party with free food, beer and music so we rolled out of the driveway just after noon to check it out. Tim has had a gift card burning a hole in his pocket since Christmas and finally decided on a piece of chrome to trim out the switch panel. Thanks to Crazy Mike in Texas for making Tim aware that we lacked that piece of trim - ha!) We noticed on the way over that the headlamp was out so we added that to our purchases. We tossed the dice at the parts counter. The parts guy said we needed a pair or seven. Tim rolled a pair. I rolled a seven. We added a couple of small items (patch and magnet) from the winner's basket to our sack.

The Ride at Spring Ride Party - Thunder Mountain Harley-Davidson

We roamed through the bikes, said hello to our Ultra salesman Ray and looked through the sale racks and motor clothes. We wandered through the parking lot, looked at the bikes parked outside, turned our noses up at the hot dogs and beer and decided we had spent enough time on foot. We took the long way home, stopping for ice cream at a McDonald's in a little town east of the dealership.

Enjoying a Saturday off with a ride and ice cream

Yum!

We spent the rest of the afternoon/evening on the patio with burgers and sausage and portabella mushrooms on the grill, a fire in the chiminea and beer chilled to just the right temperature. We are completely amazed that we are able to sit on the patio until after dark. Usually we are still wading through snow at this time of year and grilling is the farthest thing from our minds.