Family Bike Rides!

Grandipop you'd be proud of your great-grandson and our biking family. Your legacy shines on - all the way to New Zealand :)

A couple weeks ago Andrew won an auction on TradeMe for a good second-hand toddler bikeseat then fixed up his old Diamondback. The four of us can now all set out on bike rides together. We've managed this style of edenzadventure three times now.

First trip was to pick veggies at our community garden plot. We stopped for ice-cream cones on the route home and let the kids play around on McDonald's gymnasium.

Second trip was on a Sunday. With afternoon naps behind us and tea and biscuits in a backpack we headed uphill (all the way!!) to the Auckland Botanical Gardens where we listened to "Elvis in the Park". A thousand or so people were there enjoying the festivities and listening to a selection of different men impersonate Elvis. Even the current reigning world champ from England had turned up for the show! Thankfully we didn't have to worry about parking and we even left with the kids hearing still intact. The downhill ride home was bliss!

Third trip was this last Sunday. Summer is amiably giving way to the boisterous autumn weather. We rode a foot/cycle path around a portion of the (vast) Manukau Harbour bayline in the posher suburb of Wattle Downs just south of Manurewa. A trail Kirstie and I strollered the kids along a number of times. Tide was out and the wind danced busily round us. Zeke and Tazara pointed out every bird and dog as well as calling back and forth to each other a couple times. Tazara took up singing now and then when she wasn't crying from helmet-hate. She rides emotions just like her Mama :).

I'm so thankful for these delightful gulps of summer fun with my young family! I've put a request in for a couple more rays of summer sun before doors close and fireplaces are lit.