We’d heard about a great family biking opportunity just north of us called Bicycle Sunday. They close a portion of Canada Road to cars from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. It sounded perfect — safe, scenic and family friendly — so we drove north a bit and checked it out on January 4th. You can see from this picture that the enthusiasm level was high.
Finn, very excited to ride his new bike, bounced back from the mini-nap and had a great time. However, we soon realized we had two problems: 1) Ezra didn’t want to be there, didn’t want to ride his bike, and had every intention of complaining the entire time, and 2) the road wasn’t actually closed to cars.
It was scenic though!
And it wasn’t that crowded with cars, but it’s still nerve-wracking to ride on a big road like that with the kids. We rode along for about 3.5 miles and once we looped back, we figured out the reason for problem #2.
Oops. It was January.
But Finn had a fabulous time on his sleek new bike!
We’ll definitely try it again on another Sunday. Especially if we can find something else for Ezra to do instead. (In Ezra’s defense, he turned up sick the next day, so we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he probably wasn’t feeling up to par that day either.)