First goal: see if all four bikes can fit in the cabin of our minivan. Check! Yup, 4 bikes, (3 folding, one Squidette sized non-folding) fit in the back of our Sienna. Cool!
Second goal: get out there before beach traffic has a chance to develop. Check! Out of the apartment by 9, car loaded by 9:15 and unloaded in Bayside by 10:00.
Third goal: find our way to Alley Pond Park via the greenway that runs behind my parent's apartment complex. Check! This is the first time that I got to take the kids on my old riding routes. Up until now we have either discovered new paths together or ridden on Mike's old routes. Today I had to lead. Yes!
Alley Pond Park. This is really it for the ride photos since we rode pretty much non-stop save this restroom stop.
We rode on the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway, one of the first concrete roads in the nation, now a part of the NYC greenway. Lovely ride through wooded areas.
Then, realizing that if we returned the way we came we would arrive at my folks' place later then expected, we took a more direct route back.
Lunch, swimming and tennis ensued and a good time was had by all. Except for poor younger sis who had to work. I kept her company while the kids swam and we traded gossip about our other siblings.
Zedda and Little Squid.
Zedda and Little Squid.
4 comments:
Sounds like a wonderful day! That's great you can fit all the bikes in the car so you can try some new routes!
Oh, summer fun at its best! Glad you had such a great day with the family.
and to think we were excited fitting our two bikes (non folding but quick release wheel (or do all bikes have this these days?)) in the back of our mazda 3.. how we should've gotten a hatchback!
good thing you got to take the kids on our old riding routes.. oh wait, i'm the only one who doesn't ride a bike..
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