A summary of the last week.
We did two long bike rides. Both 10+ miles. Both resulted in going to town. Eating at McDonalds. Because you can’t have a bike ride go into town and not eat somewhere. ;D And the only fast food we can all seem to agree on anymore is McD’s. ;D Also both were Laney’s idea. She started out great and then like the last mile or two (almost home) she was whining and crying and saying she couldn’t go one more inch. After we had been home for a bit she would say, “That was the best ride EVER!” So we think that maybe 10 miles plus walking around town a bit might just be pushing it a little for her. We should go a little less perhaps till she builds up her strength. Flip side…pushing her isn’t such a bad thing either…its just the whining we have to put up with. Oh, that and we have to get her a pair of cycling shorts…it seems that no matter what your age…your ehem, ‘scuse me for the blunt-ness, crotch seems to hurt when you go on long rides and those padded shorts go a long way for added comfort!
We did a new hike in Deer Creek Canyon. We had a stretch of cool overcast weather and picked one of those days to hike. It couldn’t have been a more perfect day for hiking. I don’t like to do much in the heat. But I love to be active so its kinda hard to do that here in the summer unless you get up early or do it really late in the evening. Very rare are days like the one we had the day we hiked. It was a trail that Corey had gone mountain biking on. We found wild raspberries on the side of the trail. The kids had never eaten them before. Of course with Corey and I growing up in Maine found them growing everywhere. I’d never seen them here in Colorado. Don’t know if it was just the area or the rain or both. But they were enjoying them. We had gotten some raspberries from the store a few days earlier and the kids were commenting on how most of them were rather bitter…only every third one was sweet. Not so with wild ones! And they noticed right away! ;D That is something that I was thinking about while hiking and looking at the flowers and birds and other vegetation I was not familiar with. It is weird to live in a place that I am unfamiliar with all that is native here…even the bugs. Maybe I should get a book or something. Have any of you relocated to a new place and discovered these things? How do you get on? Did you ever get familiar with the local stuff or did you always feel like a foreigner?
Bowling at Brunswick Zone was a highlight.
So was riding into Denver on the light rail.
But we all agree that the best time was the day we spent at Waterworld. I did not bring a camera. Really didn’t know how I was going to take photos on all the rides. We got there at 10am and stayed till they closed at 6pm. It is interesting to have the kids be old enough to go all day. Laney was tall enough to go on all the rides. So there was really no limits to where we could go and what we could do.
We had a fan-tab-u-lous week. How ’bout you???
On another note I have a couple new products in the store today.
) Bowling always seems to be a hit with the kiddo’s!
