So, I woke up the morning of the 5th with a note from my mother telling me about her busy day they were going to have that included a bike ride in Lewes. Ah! I'm going on a bike ride today too, mom! I'm sure they were no where near similar to each other
It was going to take us 1.5 hours to get to our mountain first. We were going to ride a total of 40 km, 8 of which were uphill. "It is fun" Mel says. Well I first spent the entire bus ride trying NOT to vomit as we twisted and turned through the mountains. The 13 and 14 year old on our trip, thought they would be so funny to get a picture of me sleeping (that's their thing...remind me again why I chose to be around this age group every day?!?!) They were lucky I didn't get sick on them. Or cause them any physical harm.
Up the mountain we started. Dusty roads, beautiful views, and a bit of sweat and hard work but it wasn't all that bad. I made it the first leg without having to walk at all. When we made our first stop, I wasn't the first one there, but I wasn't the last, either. And I CERTAINLY wasn't on the bus getting a ride up. I don't think you could have paid me enough!!! Not to mention my pride. As soon as I reached the rest of the group, they asked, don't you want to hear the good news or the bad news? I knew this wasn't going to be good. 8 km uphill turned into 18, and it was only going to get steeper. I did a bit of walking on the second leg but I was still holding my own. For the final leg, you could see our resting spot for our picnic lunch, but you could also see the steepness and the length of the road it took to get there. This was going to hurt. I walked most of the last leg, but I was proud of myself for not opting the bus ride to the top from our last stop. I guess I should have been training a bit more after all. I don't know why I couldn't fit that into my not-so-busy schedule. :)
After lunch, it was a lot of downhill which sounds more fun, but I'm glad we had the uphill first. My bum was quite sore to ride the way down, and then my wrists got sore from trying to keep myself off the seat. It was also at least 95 degrees for the entirety of this day, but it was fun none the less.
We had a bit more free time after this event before dinner, but all we wanted to do was lay. So we did. Marnie's glad that it was our last bit of scheduled activeness. But, I must give her a lot of credit. When she started complaining on our first hiking day, I told her she better get it all out now, we have a lot more activitites left. She was "winge"-free for the rest of all of our activitites!! Other's picked up where she left off though.
First question...when you were planning this trip, and all of these bus rides, did you ever give any consideration to your motion sickness issue!?
ReplyDeleteDad said to tell you that we had a 20 mile bike ride and it was up hill in both directions! We actually had a nice ride and it was uneventful, not like the kind of excitement we have when Aunt Keigh rides with us!
Meghan took dads stitches out yesterday and she met us in the ER as we were walking in. I told her that it reminded me of the time I made you walk to school ("Mom, yesterday I had to wait for HIM!") since she there before we were, and she didn't remember that story. How could he not since I think everyone, and their brother heard about that!? After that we went to CHSP but didn't get through the parking lot before the rain started, followed by a huge storm. The line to get back home was all the way back to the state park so we turned around and went back in and had an inside out tailgate in the car watching all of the people trying to get to their cars, etc. Not as much fun as watching people on the Avenue but we had a great time just the same!
Anyway, we finished up our day with a sunset kayak tour in Lewes. Not as exciting as your trip but just the way that I prefer things!
Looking forward to the pictures that I'm sure you'll add to this post!
Love you!
Mom and Dad