The Baby on the Bike Goes Wah, Wah, Wah!

Daddy and a sleeping Jonah a few miles into our ride.

We started the morning of our final day on Cape Cod with a bike ride with Grammy Sweetser. We
rented bikes from Barb's Bike Shop in Dennis and hopped on at the Cape Cod Rail Trail trailhead right next to it.  Ben and I were definitely excited to get out and do something more active, especially as Jonah has done fairly well with bike rides in the past. This was his first time riding in a seat behind Ben, rather than in a trailer behind the bike. And as usual, he expressed his distaste for the bike helmet (they do seem impossible to get situated properly and require frequent readjustment).


The ride started out really well - Jonah enjoyed himself a bit before falling asleep.  The day was beautiful for a ride and there were lots of people out on the trail.  We stopped briefly in Nickerson State Park to use the facilities and continued heading east, motivated in part by the mileage indicators every tenth of a mile (how awesome would that be for speed work for running?!).  We turned around just shy of the 12.5 mile mark, as the trail joined the main roadway and we didn't feel like trying to caravan as a group on a busy street.  The day was beautiful, and all seemed to be going great.

Get me out of here!

Unfortunately, the return trip was not nearly as peaceful.  Jonah decided he had had it with the bike ride and cried nonstop for at least 5 miles of the return trip.  We stopped at one point to try to console him, but ultimately had no option but to put him back in the seat and continue on back to our car.  Eventually, he wore himself out and fell asleep as we approached our destination.  In hindsight, we think he was hungry and that exacerbated his frustration: he inhaled his food in the parking lot when we got back.  This serves as a good reminder that we should always plan to have at least a small snack with us!

Hopefully our next bike ride will be much happier.  I doubt we'll attempt 25 miles in the near future, though.