Biking to dinner

As a family we used to go out quite often in Florida, but we haven't done that much since we first arrived in Sweden mostly because it costs a lot more money here. So a couple of Fridays ago, we decided to go out and Thomas suggested this Malaysian place that he had been to before when he was on business. 

In Sweden if you would like to have one drink with your dinner at a restaurant, then you arrange transportation to/from the restaurant. If you are above .02 BAC then you can lose your license for 6 months (Florida's limit is .08 BAC in comparison). So basically you cannot have 1 drink and then drive so if you have a car there is always a designated driver. 

Many people ride their bikes into town to dinner as a cheaper alternative to taxis. That's what we decided to do, but first we had to prepare. Thomas still didn't have a bike yet so that day he went shopping for a bike. Luckily most sporting stores are getting in all their winter sport gear so bikes were on sale. We rode our bikes to meet him downtown to pick up his bike because we also needed to shop for lights for all of our bikes since we would be eating dinner later and it would be dark when traveling back home after dinner.

We went back home to get dressed and ready then we bundled up with gloves and jackets...

We rode our bikes to the restaurant and locked them up...

Ready to go into the Malaysian Butterfly!

We had a delicious dinner of curried beef, a stirfry chicken meal, and a shrimp meal and sampled each others. It was delicious!

Thomas inside paying the bill. It wasn't very busy inside, I think a lot of people chose take-out from this restaurant. 

It was quite a long afternoon getting prepared with what we needed to ride our bikes into town just to go out to dinner but it was worth it!