And soak it up, we did! On Saturday, Rob played in a disc golf tournament with some friends. Harry and I went to the local Little League fields to watch his friend play a game. Afterwards, I set up the laptop on the back deck to watch the Ironman World Championships in Kona. I was glued to it all day and still can't believe that Chrissy pulled off a win just two weeks after a major bike crash in Colorado. She is amazing.
Sunday, Rob was out for two more rounds of tournament disc golf. Harry and I spent the morning at a Creamery Brook Bison Farm. It was great. They had a small petting zoo with crazy emus, peacocks, bison, cows and donkeys. You should've seen these emus chasing each other around the pen. I thought that they were going to bust right out of the pen and come at us! After checking out the petting zoo, we went up to the gates of the bison pastures. The bison were far away, so the farmer started banging on the gate while yelling out and poured some feed down. All of a sudden 50-60 bison just started charging toward us. They were running super fast straight at us with only a thin electric fence between us. It was sketchy. But that farmer knows what he is doing and all was safe. We finished our bison tour with a cup of bison chili. Delicious!
After our walk with the bison, Harry and I headed home. He hung out with his buddy outside while I went for a road ride with my friends. I rode down to the dam to meet everyone and we did a familiar 15 mile loop. At some point, we decided to add on a different road and went over a set of railroad tracks. Bad news for one of our riders. Flat tire that was beyond repair. After three attempts at getting a new tube in, he decided to call it quits. We then headed back to the dam and I rode on home. I ended with 18.1 miles for the day. We decided to close out the day with a bonfire.
But there's more. Monday morning, Rob and Harry headed down to Candlewood Lake to help take out the dock. While they were lakin', I went to work for a few hours. We all got home around 2:30 and couldn't believe temperatures were still in the 80's. And so we decided to do family mountain bike ride. Rob brought us over to the back side of Douglas (BSOD, for those in the know) and we headed out. First off, I have to say that riding MY mountain bike (with no fancy shocks or anything) is like riding a jack hammer. My arms took a beating! Secondly, mosquitos love this weather as much as we do. They were out in full force, making it nearly impossible to stop and rest at any point. So it was a fast 4.5 miles for us.
All in all, it was a glorious fall weekend. Hope you and yours were able to get out and enjoy it! Next up: Treasure Valley Rally. Rob and Harry are both racing this weekend. Happy pedaling!!
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