Tuesday Adventure!

Well it's Exercise Tuesday again and since biking has been going so well, I decided it would be fun to expand our horizons a bit! Everyone was excited to try some of the biking trails in the city so supper was done & over with & we were in the car on our way before 6pm!

We started off well. and then, ummm it sortof disintegrated. First, Lovey had a wipeout going down a small hill and tore up her legs from knee to upper thigh, along with both hands and an elbow. We had been biking approximately 5 minutes. A nice gentleman passing by said there was a station up ahead that would probably have bandaids. We continued on and just as we arrived, Sweetie tipped as she tried to stop and shredded a kneecap herself. She immediately popped up while I simultaneously cringed and waited for the onslaught. She looks around, sees several people standing around & just hollers "DIDN'T HURT!!!!!!!!!!". Whew!!

So, I took Lovey into a bathroom & got her cleaned up and they gave us a couple of bandaids. When she came out, her sisters were throwing rocks in some nearby water so she did that for a few minutes and was calmed down & ready to continue. We mounted up and headed off! Not two minutes later, Honey somehow caught the back of her heel with her peddle and cut it. The sight of the blood had her wailing immediately! Meanwhile, Lovey & Sweetie are sailing along fine. After several protests of "never biking, ever, ever again!" Honey started biking to catch up to me so I wouldn't miss any of her complaints as I'd somehow drifted out of earshot!

Murray was on foot and keeping up with Sweetie who was zipping along & Lovey on her tail. This annoyed Honey to no end. She can't stand anyone getting ahead of her but has yet to realize that taking multiple crying breaks does NOT do much for her standings! So she moaned, groaned, cried and whined for most of the rest of Exercise Tuesday. This was "the WORST day EVER" and "this is the most horrible bike ride of my whole LIFE!" followed up with "I can't BELIEVE you think THIS is FUN!!!!" and tacked on to the end, many times was "I am NEVER going on another bike ride ever again!" This all sounded very serious until a moment later she got distracted by something interesting and asked "next time can we go all the way there???". Unfortunately, the return trip did not improve her views on biking fun. Another bad wipeout and she had a nasty knee too. It wasn't as messy as Lovey's but her display certainly was! We have no worries about anyone's lung capacity around here, suffice it to say! Mind you, they were bad wipeouts and scraped knees DO sting like a son of a gun. I'm not saying it didn't hurt, by any means! I'm just not sure who to give the Academy Award for best performance to. :)))

We came home, got everyone cleaned up and ready for bed and they read to themselves for awhile and conked out fast at lights out!