Memorial Day weekend is a great time to check out all of the improvements our fair city has made. Warm weather on Saturday had lots of people strolling around, eating out on the patios of the many cool restaurants, checking out the murals, playing the street pianos, (one of my favorite things,) and riding bicycles. While stopped at a red light, we noticed one man on a bicycle wearing what I first assumed was an eccentric hat. He was talking with a pedestrian who was smiling and gesturing to the hat. I thought it was a plastic iguana somehow stuck to the top of this hat, when it turned and looked in my direction. Yup, that’s a real iguana up there.
So many questions. Would an iguana like to go for a bike ride? How does he know it will stay there and not hop off at some point? What about passing dogs on leashes expressing curiosity? How did he think to try this the first time, and why? All of these questions will have to go unanswered, but they will continue to plague me as the light turned green and we went on our merry way. Good day to you, iguana bicycle man.