An Epic Bike Ride

Today I woke up and rode to Lehi on the Murdock trail and back. At home, I loaded the bikes for the whole family and then we all went to Utah Lake. From Utah Lake, we all rode along the Provo River trail, until we arrived at Kneaders where we got lunch (along with Roxberry smoothies). We then rode the whole way back. The entire thing was 16.5 miles! Here are some pictures and anecdotes about the ride.

Mary went with me to pick up the smoothies while everyone else was at Kneaders. I LOVE that she doesn’t think she is too old to hold my hand.

I am so grateful for all our working bicycles that allowed for this perfect ride. And the weather was magnificent.

Riding along University Avenue
I was especially impressed with Ammon who rode 16.5 miles on his little bike. He probably had to turn is wheel 2.5 times for every time I turned my wheel.
It was so fun to experience this trail. Even though we live in Orem and are in Provo all the time, this trail made it feel like we were experiencing Provo for the first time. Some parts were scenic nature, other parts had fun features like tunnels, and other parts were in busy parts of the city. Mary was nervous about riding through some of the tunnels that had steep downhills followed by steep uphills, but in the end, she did it!
Here is some of the scenic nature near Utah lake.
More nature.

We stopped by Cook’s on the way home and did a couple hours of gardening. Actually, while Lily was gardening, I was mostly picking up (one by one) over a thousand blue glass rocks that Clarissa threw in our window wells when she was three. I returned them to our fire pit where they belong. Lily did amazing work planting more flowers and Lydia picked her beets!

Didn’t Lily’s Hollyhocks turn out great? Also, in the background you can see our sunflowers, which make me very happy.

In the evening, Lily and I went to dinner with our friends, The Olsens. We ate (for the first time) at the Lakehouse at Deer Creek Reservoir. We loved it and it is now my and Lily’s favorite local place to eat. We had so much fun conversing with our friends.

What a rich and wonderful day.