Birthday Presents!

Happy Birthday to Me! I started out the day telling everyone that I was 29, but they all laughed and said, "Ya, right." So I decided it was better to tell people I was 30, because when you say you're 29, they all assume that you're really 39!


I know I got a double stroller for Mother's Day, but some people are just never satisfied. I wanted to go faster. So for my birthday I got a bike and a bike trailer for my little girls. So cool, huh? The bike was actually given to me by a friend, and the bike trailer was from Jef.

Ready for a long funny story? Jef hooked up the trailer for me and left for work the day after my birthday. I decided to ride it over to school lunch, drop off Jennie, go the bank, and then home. Well, I immediately discovered that pulling the trailer was HARD. It felt like it weighed 100 lbs, and I was dragging it. By the time I got the school, two blocks away, my muscles were burning, the sweat was pouring off me, and I was thinking, "Man, I'm not going many places with this thing!" So I dropped Jennie off, and headed to the bank, which is across the street. It was another two blocks to home after that, but I walked the bike for the last block because it was so hard, and I was dying. I was kind of bummed, thinking that we should probably return the trailer because I'd never be able to pull it any distance at all. So I unhooked the trailer, rolled it a little, andwas surprised to find that it is SO light. Then I tried to roll the bike. The front wheel would not move at all. I had been trying to ride the bike with the brakes on!
Well, thank goodness I'm not the world's biggest wimp, but now what do I do about my bike? Jef finally came home and took a look at it. Turns out the handle bars had been turned a full 360 degrees, and the brake lines were wrapped tight around the bike.
Oh.
So all I had to do was turn my handle bars around? That's all?!?!
So I'm not a wimp, I'm just not so smart, is all.

The next day I rode it two miles with the trailer on, and it was SO easy! Yeah! And on Monday we went on our first ever family bike ride.

P.S. This second picture is of me about to fall over because I'm trying to go slow for my picture. :)

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You know how in the move The Scarlet Pimpernel it says it was taken from Baroness Orczy's TWO books, the Scarlet Pimpernel and El Dorado? Well I got El Dorado for my birthday! Yeah! I know, you wanna read it, too. But you'll have to get in line because Katie's first. :)