I convinced Ocean and Nadia to go on a bicycle ride with me along the Ankhor Canal. It was the first time us three went on a bike ride in Tashkent. I hope to do this more often. It was a fresh, spring day with the scent of Sweet Violet in the air. Nadia has a keen sense of smell and discerned the pleasant odor was coming from sweet violets that we in bloom in the grass along the canal. We made it all the way to the Minor Mosque and back, covering just over 11 kilometers. The mechanic at Just Roll Bike Studio did a good job in preparing the bikes for the spring riding season.
After the bike ride, we ate dinner at Maqom and tea at Roun’D Korean Dessert Cafe. Oliver was preparing for his IB exams coming up in May and was not able to join us.
After dinner, I took a little nap so I could stay up and watch the NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament, aka March Madness. I still enjoy the first weekend of the tournament after all these years. College basketball was much more popular when I was growing up in the 1980s. I remember watching Michael Jordan’s winning shot against Georgetown at my friend’s house. Many of us followed college basketball closer than the NBA. Today with the new rules, players are spending less time in university and fans cannot establish a connection with the teams because different players come and go often. Some of the best players skip college basketball and are finding alternative routes to the NBA. The NBA is also getting more international players who are not in the American university system. All this has caused less interest in college basketball except for the end of the season knock-out tournament.
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