8 miles!
Posted By pamelamyers on July 7, 2018
We wanted to get outside while the weather was good (stupid rain never seems to stop). Mark wanted to go on a bike ride and I wanted to go somewhere different so I suggested the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge. We had been there before, and used to walk there a lot when Sam was little and in the stroller, but it is supposed to be bikeable, so we went. Some of the trail was pretty rocky, but not mountain bike rocky, so we were ok. Sam surprisingly didn’t complain much, and it turned out to be a fun day.
As is our usual M.O., we stop a lot to let Sam rest so she doesn’t get too tired. There are a lot of really nice quiet spots to take a break.
We got to the fishing platform and Sam used the binoculars to look out over the marsh. Ok, she could look out into the sky until I picked her up, but I thought this picture was funny.
On the other side of the marsh, on the bridge, we saw a family of swans! Sam loved the baby swan, but who doesn’t like baby animals?
By the time we got back to the car, Sam was really beat, but she pushed on the whole time without complaining (much). She was getting tired on the way back and I told her when we got home to the air conditioning, I would get her some ice cream. She cracked me up. For miles, she kept mumbling to herself, “Must get to the ice cream…pedal faster…get to the ice cream!” Well, whatever works, because she made it – 8 miles! That is the longest she ever biked, and she earned every lick of ice cream she got!
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