Cycling with Sarah!

With the boys at school today, mommy working the day shift, and the sunny day approaching 50 degrees, daddy decided to get out his new birthday present (bike trailer) and take Sarah for a bike ride! Here she is in her new bunny helmet.



Bicycling big rig! Sarah's already in the trailer and raring to go! We rode to the Coon Rapids Dam and back, for a total of 11 miles.



On the way to the dam, we saw a pair of deer! We stopped, and they didn't even run away. When daddy pointed them out to Sarah, she said, "Oh!"



At the dam.



While we walked around at the dam, Rich ran into John, a friend of his, Roger and Gloria's from the Jim Klobuchar bike ride. John is from Indiana and was visiting his son's family in the Twin Cities, and he was out walking on the dam with his two grandsons, who don't have school this week. John took this picture of us, and said to say "Hi!" to Roger and Gloria.

Cycling with Sarah, continued...

On the way back home, we just had to stop at a playground for about 40 minutes to enjoy the sun and so Sarah could have some fun. Here she is crossing a bridge ...



... on the way to the big spiral slide. Her hair got all static-y, and she went down the slide about 12 or 15 times.



Riding the teeter-totter. She yelled "Boing! Boing! Boing!"



Wheeee! Swings! Daddy swung, too. We saw many robins looking for worms while we were on the swings, and Sarah (of course) named them: "Daddy! Mommy! Sarah!" When we got off the swings, she decided to chase a few robins to make them fly away.


The last few miles home knocked Sarah right out! It was a good day. Mommy and the boys have to come along next time!