Family Bike Ride

Miracles do happen.  Today's miracle came in the form of a family bike ride.  That's right, every member of our family enjoying a bike ride together... well, on a bike ride together.  Matt spent a few hours in the garage tuning up all the bikes we had and we borrowed a bike trailer for the little ones.  There were a few groans when we finally announced that it was time to go, though we had given fair "warning" that we were going to go for a ride.  

There is a new trail that goes for several miles called the Murdock trail that has recently been completed.  It runs just a few blocks from our house.  Matt loaded up the cars with all our bikes and we headed to one of the trail entrance parking lots and started unloading everything.

 

Kate wasn't so sure about the whole thing, but she didn't fight it much.  Daniel didn't mind at all. 

Amy's bike squealed like crazy whenever she used her brakes.  Turns out you do that quite a bit while riding.   Bless her heart, she was a good sport about it.  We traded bikes half way through.  She and I took off first and we posed for this loverly photo while the others caught up.

Tyler had the bike trailer for most of the way.  He was more excited about this adventure than he appears in the photo.  Once we all got going it really was fun.  Emily was on her beach cruiser that she got for Christmas 2012.  Matt had put it together for her and before this family ride she called some friends and they went for a ride up the canyon.  She looked darling peddling along.

 

Amy and I ended up being riding partners.  This picture was taken after I told her about our motorcycle taxi riding days in China.  Mom and dad weren't very thrilled when we showed them all these pictures we took while riding on the back of motorcycles through the crazy maze of China's traffic.  So of course I had to show Amy that I could still do it.  It was much harder on a bike than on a motorcycle.

Tyler pulled the little people. It wasn't too long into the ride that we noticed that Daniel O. was asleep on Kate's shoulder.  Cute little guy. 

   

    

I loved having us all doing an activity together.  It's only going to get harder and harder to get us all together for such an event as the older kids get busier and busier.  We're hoping biking becomes a more frequent family activity in the future.  When we got home and the next day the older kids all mentioned that they had a good time.  I did, too.