So, apart from birthday parties and trips to Hawaii, what have the Johnsons been up to?? Well, for starters.. we're having our yards (front and back) put in. One of Anne's first cousins and her family live in Anchorage... interestingly enough, Jim has a side business doing landscaping. That was good for us because we didn't have to get a bunch of bids, we just signed on with them basically when we moved here! I think the yards are going to be awesome. I'm particularly looking forward to a patio going in off the basement. It goes all the way out to the bluff and we're going to put a fire pit out there (to lure the bears up.. NOT!) and some cool furniture. (pictures to follow once it's all finished)
Additionally, I am now the proud owner of my friend Jen's old bike. Everyone else in the fam has a bike that they ride.. I was left out!! No longer. I can't even remember the last time I rode a bike besides at the gym. We went on a short ride Sunday to the park... that went well so my friend Kamdon and I decided we'd try a longer ride today since the kids (Kara, Clay and Ainsley) had VBS. Here was the conversation between me and Kamdon...
Me: Hey, we should go for a bike ride while the kids are at VBS.
K: Sure! Where should we go?
Me: (thinking).... we could ride on the bike paths towards the base?
K: We could ride to Fort Rich (the Army base) and go to their Starbucks.
Me: Sure!
Meanwhile, we get going on our ride and it seems really easy. So easy that we keep on trucking past Fort Rich, all the way to the new Target which is about 10 miles from Kamdon's house... we were feeling all smug about our apparent super-in-shapedness, talking about how "that wasn't so bad" over our iced teas. When it was time to head back, had to be back to K's by 12:00 to drive to the church to get said kids, we were still kind of chuckling about our rock start status, first long bike ride. WELL, all good things must come to an end, and our smugness came to a grinding halt when Kamdon says (about 10 minutes into the hour ride home... no one said we were fast) "Does this feel like it's all uphill?". Sure enough... turns out "it wasn't so bad" because the majority of the ride to Target was DOWNHILL. The ride home was not so easy and there was NO TRACE OF SMUG left by the time we made it back and got the kids home. However, it was fun, great exercise and we encountered no errant rocks from cars, no moose and no bears!!
3 comments:
Yes, you are feeding into my addiction...thank you. Glad to hear you finally got the bike. I would probably die after 20 miles...seriously. We have a stationary bike in the house and I die after about 6 miles...watching tv and sitting in the AC. Can't wait to see pics of the yard!
Haha, you are such a funny writer!
I got a bike for Christmas, also not to feel left out, haven't done a 20 miler yet! :)
I'm just glad y'all made it back in time to get the kids from VBS, and they weren't stranded at the church while their mommies were getting their booties kicked by the uphill ride back from Starbucks! THAT would've been embarrassing! I, too, got a bike after Claire got rid of her training wheels. We LOVE our evening and weekend family rides!
Ride like the wind... Laura
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