What a wonderful weekend we had here in Michigan. The weather was beautiful- the sun was shining and the sky’s were blue. Let’s recap what we did…
On Saturday we headed out with our bikes to Grosse Pointe. We wanted to ride to Detroit along the waterfront and view the boats on Lake St. Clair one more time before the cold winds start to blow. Our destination was the Detroit Atwater Brewery. They have a few Octoberfest beers to sample and we were missing our good German beers from our recent vacation.
Our buddies Ann and Dave joined us for the day!
We stopped by the Detroit River Front for a break and some pictures.
We also rode along the Dequindre Cut.
We finally arrived at Atwater and sampled quite a few beers. Ann settled on a Pumpkin Spice Latte Ale (ABV 6%), her Dave had a Bloktoberfest (ABV 6.10%), My Dave had a Decadent Dark Chocolate Ale (ABV. 5%) and I had the Hessian Lives Pumpkin Ale (different from Ann’s) (ABV 7%). We all loved mine the best so our second beer was Hessian Lives Pumpkin Ale for all. 🙂 We ended up eating there also and loved the new “Almost Burger” they had on the menu.
Once we were full and our thirst was quenched, we headed back to our bikes for the ride back. Detroit has invested in their bike lanes this year so we felt very safe on the road alongside cars because of the designated bike lane.
Our plan was to end up at the Grosse Pointe Atwater Brewery for a night cap before heading home. We all wanted one more beer and we wanted the Pumpkin Ale. Unfortunately for us they don’t sell the same beers at each locality. So, we ended up ordering a plate of hot chocolate cookies and called it a night. All in all, we biked 23.50 miles and burned 886 calories. Not bad for a Saturday late afternoon bike ride with friends.
On Sunday we saw the movie Brittany runs a Marathon. We both really enjoyed it and since it was raining Sunday afternoon it was a great way to kill the time. It was motivating and entertaining and a good “date night” movie.
We did manage to run Saturday morning (4 miles) before we went biking and biked another 18.25 on Sunday morning.
How was your weekend? Did you exercise? Did you get outside?
Karen
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