the accident.

so. its been awhile. but something happened that is seriously worthy of a post. saturday evening i went to spend the night at court's house. she had just got home from venice and i wanted to hear all of her stories. church was in the morning. so it was perfect. iwoke up. court decided to sleep instead of going to church. so i was by myself. maybe fifty feet later... my over-night bag got stuck in my front tire.. which then came to screeching halt! this sent me over the handle bars... into the street. and of course the only place for the bike to fall was on top of me. it was a warm sunday so the streets were a bit busy. like four people ran over to me right away and picked me and my bicycle up... i was laughing! i couldn't believe it. (by the way... since i was going to church. i was wearing a dress... thankfully tights and boots so the damage wasn't too bad and i wasn't revealed to all of due ponti - the street court lives on).
then the bad news hit... i totally broke my bike! the front breaks were permanently breaking. so i couldn't push it to church. this is when the middle aged man and his wife carried my bike to their front yard. locked it to their fence so they could keep an eye on it for me. and then insisted on driving me to the duomo to meet heather! which i totally took him up on. thank you maure!
and that isn't even the most incredible part of the story!
so then.. we walked to church. and gina drove me back to my house so todd and i could double on his bike (where i ride on the back.. i'm going to have to take a picture and post it. maybe a video would be better? its pretty ridiculous) to go and get mine. when we got there (maybe 4 hours post accident) maure and his wife were leaving... but were happy to tell me they were able to fix my bike! at least enough to make it ridable. can you believe that? how incredible are they? its a little lopsided. and has some new sounds when i ride it.... but it works!

the next morning i woke up to a couple battle wounds. not so funny any more.