I GOT A HELMET! AND, it came with my very own bicycle....(but, that would have been really funny if it had not) I know this is sad, but I have not had a bike since I got my dream, pink and gray, 10-speed when I was 10 years old....and I am not saying how long ago that was!!!
So, the only other person in the family who really needed a new bike was Karly because she has outgrown her teeny tiny toddler bike. I said I had to run some errands this afternoon and ran into town and got her a new bike. When I got home Brad and I put it in between the vans in the garage and acted like we were going to take a family trip into town to play some tennis. We asked Karly to go get the tennis balls for us thinking she would have to go through the middle of the vans to get them. I was peeking at her from the kitchen door and that squirt squeezed through the tiny area in front of the vans instead of going by the bike. So, then I said we should get all the tennis racquets too and go though the middle....she said, "OK and (yawn) I saw the new bike you got me." SO NONCHALANT! Why is she 6 going on 16? She's my baby....that's not fair! SO KASSI screamed for her...thank you Kassi for always giving me the reaction I am hoping for :)
We loaded up the trailer (like the Beverly Hillbillies) and headed to Falling Waters Trail for our first FOSTERRIFIC FIVE MILE RIDE. Our incentive was to make it to Concord from Teft Rd before 9pm so we could get some ice cream. We had hoped we could also make the return trip to the van, but there was NO WAY that was happening :) We started at about 7:30 pm and barely made it :) My legs are going to be sore only because I went the whole way as SLLLLLOOOOOWWWWLLLLYYYY as I could. I was the caboose to our train. That doesn't sound hard, but you try riding 5 miles barely peddling.....haha! I think the balance I needed to maintain to stay upright gave me a pretty good core workout (watch out Jillian Michaels....here I come :). This was Danielle's first day without training wheels and she did GREAT! Everyone did well for the first time out of our yard....that was just quite a distance to try for out first distance ride. We made it to the ICE CREAM place...like an oasis in the desert, Must...........have.......dessert........so Brad rode his bike back to the van and came to pick us up with the trailer....it only took him 18 minutes to get back to the van by himself.....that is hilarious to me :)
ZOOM, ZOOM, ZOOM....ready, set, SUMMER!
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