On Sunday, Luke, Henry and I rode 9 miles on our bikes.
9 miles!!
The biggest bike ride we've taken is the 2 miles it takes for us to get to Gran's house and back, and even that sometimes wears me out.
What started off as a quick bike ride around the neighborhood ended up being a trip to Gigi's and then some.
When we decided to go for it, I didn't really have a lot of confidence that we could make it all that way.
Her house is a good 5 or 6 miles from our house, almost the entire way is busy streets. Henry's also pretty new to the the whole "going on a bike ride" thing, so I was afraid it would turn into a major stress of me continually reminding him to be careful and watch for cars. Plus, I only had my phone with me--no sunglasses, no sunblock, no blistex, no money. I was not prepared!
I figured that at the very least we could call Ben and he could come pick us up where ever we tuckered out at!
I'm really glad that we decided to go. It made for an absolutely perfect day, and it was so much fun!
The whole way there, Henry said hi to everyone we passed and kept telling Luke, "You really should say hi, or at least wave, because that's being polite." He also kept telling me what a good job I was doing. I love that boy!
Once we made it to Gigi's I mapped out our route and we went exactly 7 miles. None of us could believe it!
The boys rode their bikes around some more and then we decided to go ride and get some ice cream--another 2 mile round trip.
After that we called Ben to come get us.
We had enough energy to head back home, but I really didn't want to push it. Plus, we were all a little sunburned thanks to our lack of sunblock!
The boys want to try a round trip next weekend. That would be about 12 miles there and back.
I have no idea how we made it 9 miles, so I really can't imagine 12!
That sounds completely overwhelming!
