Last night about 5 my FIL called me from the Calif. Railroad Museum. He'd taken the twins there because they were begging to see the trains (yeah, right ). He was going to drive by the Capitol to show the kids the Christmas tree and since it was raining he insisted he could give me a ride home. Of course, thanks to the rain and the one-way streets downtown, it took him nearly 40 minutes to go two miles.

Of course I could have just ridden home long before that, but I was trying to be nice to my kids' granddad who was trying to be nice to me.

But really, these nice gestures are really cutting into my mileage!