biking like crazy!

we've had a few days of biking madness!

sunday, we rode about 7 miles roundtrip to meet up with another family at the park. it was fun, we'd not seen them in a while and everyone enjoyed the fellowship.

monday, we rode almost 20 miles roundtrip to seal beach with jake & katie (scott's cousin & wife from oregon - they stay with us when vacationing in so cal). this was a fun 4th of july adventure and pressed dear ky to the limit as she has always rode in the trailer on past trips of this magnitude. but, no training wheels = ride on your own. her first time in the riverbed too and she was a little freaked out by the drop off. BUT she made it the whole way! (thanks to much encouragement from the cousins) way to go ky!

tuesday, we rode about 13 miles roundtrip to our CC parkday. (i had pre-arranged this before the other 2 impromptu biking adventures.) oops. it turned out to be really fun. we took a friend, james, along and his mom drove ky & sy, so ky didn't have to ride any more. james had never biked to a destination before so we did some quick safety lessons about bike lanes, etc and were on our way. when we got to the riverbed, i was just reminding the boys to stay on the paved part and not do any offroading as i didn't want to deal with any flats when i got a tack in my tire! i decided to see if it had punctured the tube and it had, but i put the tack back in. just ahead was a walmart (right off the riverbed) so we pulled over to get a tire - then i realized i had put my wallet in the car with ky & sy. we prayed. i had $5 cash and the new tube was 8 because they were out of the cheap ones. i decided i would ask the guy at the register if i could bring him back the rest - and he actually lent me the money out of his own pocket! really! when i got back out to my bike, the tire was still doing well so we rode on to the park. i left the tire be until we were ready to go, and the tire with the tack was still holding, so we rode all the way home with it like that. this was really nice because i actually didn't have any tools to change the tire and wasn't sure where i was going to find them either! so fun to watch God provide!

we stopped at walmart on the way home and paid back our new friend. and to top off the fun of the day - james rode the whole trip, even though he wanted to bail once we got to the park and again when we got to the big hill on the way home - but even then he made it up the hill without getting off his bike! (none of the boys' bikes have gears.) yay for james!

and that is the fun of biking 40 miles in 3 days with newbies!