We were pretty pooped from the driving yesterday so we took the opportunity to sleep in and take it easy this morning. After breakfast, we showered and went for a little pedal about town. We stopped in at Freeheel & Wheel as I had checked out their website and wanted to see their custom cycling jerseys, as my Sugoi XL is a wee bit tight yet... While we were there, Jo mentioned the awesome trail system they have here that is Cross Country Ski trails in the winter and Biking in the summer. Tim was all over that like a dirty shirt so we went back to our camp, loaded up our water bottles, I changed in to appropriate cycling gear (Tim was jealous that I thought ahead and brought my gloves and shorts, he doesn't know where his gloves are and didn't think to bring his shorts either... but no matter) and we were off!! We took the Rendezvous Trail easy level loop to Grizzly Trail and back, about 8.5 km round trip. Connor was having troubles with his gearing and I stayed with him because of bears, Tim blasted on ahead and waited for us. I walked a few hills with Connor and coached him a bit on pedalling when you are starting up the next hill, I'm a big chicken going down the hills and the offroad dirt track was something I wasn't overly comfortable with but it was pretty darned fun in hindsight. On the way home, Connor and I stopped in at Yellowstone Cycle to see about getting him a water bottle and cage, but he doesn't have mounting holes on the frame of his bike so that didn't work out. I did, however, get myself a shopping basket mounted on the front of my bike for little trips downtown or to the store. No need to take the car!! We also bought a wind toy for outside on our deck as a keepsake as well. Connor and I pedaled back to camp and we bbq'd burgers for lunch. Then Tim said I was free to go shopping so I mounted my trusty bicycle and pedaled on back to Freeheel & Wheel to let Jo know we did the recommended trail she had suggested but she wasn't there. I bought some kickin' cycling socks that say "Bike Yellowstone National Park" on the ankle and freeheelandwheel.com on the bottom, with a geyser in the background. I think they are super cool coolmax socks!! I also meandered downtown in all my cycling gear glory going in and out of shops, didn't find anything until I got to a Scrapbook Station in a jewelry store. There I found papers, stickers and other goodies for when I get around to documenting this on paper rather than my blog... LOL! I returned to camp at about 5 p.m. to my boys who had been playing frisbee and taking it easy. We then took a walk downtown for ice cream... they have this neat one where they have a vanilla or chocolate ice cream or frozen yogurt and they add the flavours with this masher thing then it comes out as flavoured soft serve in a home made waffle cone (my choice). It was fantastic. Glad I didn't discover it earlier or I would have had that every night! Better than Dairy Queen anyhow...
We walked back and on the way stopped in at Yellowstone Cycle again to get Tim his very own water bottle for when he goes to fly his airplanes. Then we came back to camp, put up our campfire in a can and have been chillaxin' and planning our attack on the tent trailer teardown tomorrow. Big day to go to Lethbridge with a food and shopping break in Helena. Hard to believe our vacation is almost over! Back to work for Tim and I on Monday, Connor back to school on Thursday.
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