Biking to Tom Thumb

This is a fun activity that just came up on Sunday. We went to Grapevine's Main Street Days festival and had some lunch and walked around until we got tired. I was stressed out about the amount of laundry and housework we had to do, so we ran a load of laundry, put away dishes, halfway filled the dishwasher with dirty dishes hanging around on the coffee table, and took a nap. Then I realized around 6:30 that I didn't have anything for breakfast on Monday and that I wanted to work out but I didn't want to go to the gym.

The solution: ride our bikes to the grocery store and back.

What a cute guy.

This is when we got back to our driveway after cutting through a church parking lot and riding through the edges of a field instead of on the 50mph road that leads to the store. I am so glad I used to ride bikes at the ditch growing up because if I hadn't I would have been too afraid to ride in the grass- I would have been thinking about the wheel hitting a rut and me flying off and scraping my knee or breaking the bike.



Here's a shot of me on our street. Bean wouldn't let me take a picture of him carrying the milk and OJ on his back. I think he was embarrassed. I thought it was hilarious!



Here's a closeup of the Sprouts tote bag, worn like a backpack with groceries in it. I felt super eco-friendly that day, with our bikes and our recycled tote bags. More than that, it was a fun way to get some exercise and get something done at the same time! I can't wait to do it again.

Maybe next time we will take our little helper.