Sunday, May 17, 2009

Carver Park Reserve

This afternoon Trevor got to pick what he wanted to do since he was a pretty good helper with cleaning out the Jeep and Nicole's truck earlier in the day. He decided he wanted to go biking at Carver Park Reserve so he and I headed out and left Nicole and Joshua at home. If you never been out there it is a great area with lots of newer paved trails, unpaved hiking trails and even horse trails. There are a couple different picnic areas with grills and a huge sand v-ball court.

We got there at 3:45 pm at the there weren't many people around and we pretty much had the place to ourselves. We unloaded the bikes and headed down the trail...Trevor leading of course. Trevor is still learning that with on-coming traffic he can't ride right down the middle of the trail but he's getting better. Just after Trevor completed a pretty big hill, "huge" by his standards, I heard a metallic banging sound. Turns out Trevor's training wheel was very loose and getting ready to fall off. I told Trev we could take it off and he could try riding again without training wheels or we could tighten as best we could by hand (I left the tool kit at home) and head back to the truck...he took option "B".

We got back to the truck with no issue and I was very proud of Trevor, he did all every hill without any fuss or help and he has been awesome about wearing his helmet whenever he hops on his bike. We loaded up the bikes but he didn't want to go home just yet so we found a bench that overlooked the lake and sat down for 15 minutes, looked at the trees and the lake and then started to head back home. About half way home he fell asleep.

JS