11 miles and a seven year old....

"Are we there yet?", didn't hear that....."I'm tired!", didn't hear that either.
Over the weekend my seven year old and I went on an 11 mile bike ride in 95 degree heat. We rode down to Springs Spree, a local park festival, because I had to work for the station on Saturday. Anyway, with parking being difficult we decided to make a day of it and brave it on the bikes. Chad picked us up in the truck later and took home the bikes. It was fun, and an adventure. We stopped for water when we needed to. We stopped to have the lunch I had packed for us. We crossed carefully with traffic and she listened well. It's good to teach kids that cars haven't always been around. It was amazing to see how much you really notice when you're not stuck in an air conditioned car with the windows up. You take in smells you'd never smell. You see little details about neighborhoods, flowers, people working in their yards, broken fences, fences being fixed, dogs barking, cats in windows....you see the world. Every now and then it's not a bad thing to go back to the simple things. We're getting away from the little things, and those things can bring us joy if we seize the opportunity to let them!