MONDAY WAS THE DAY...
...that I crossed # 27 off of my life bucket list!
TANDEM BIKING
We felt like the giant helmets and sunglasses were a great combo for the day.
it was a blast...and tragically funny at the same time.
one for the books.
It was the best kind of day to ring in spring semester. We woke up early to the sunshine and bird chirping weather, I tell ya. After we got everything done in the morning, we headed off for our adventure. I don't think, actually I KNOW, we had no idea what in the world we were getting our selves into. It is harder than it looks. It also goes down as one of the days that I have laughed the hardest in my life.
We look relatively pleasant in all of these pictures. They don't do the craziness of our day justice. Our first problem was that the bikes seats were too high...we all have short legs and struggled in the first place to get on the bikes. Then once we were on the bikes (thanks to a stranger helping us mount.) we had to learn how to balance and steer the piece of machinery. They were a piece of work, those bikes. We were all laughing so hard that we could barely stay balanced/didn't stay balanced. We also struggled with stopping and getting off the bike. I can't count the number of times Hollie hit the ground during at attempt to stop/start. We even dropped the bike in the middle of a big intersection at one point...
We had planned to go all the way up the canyon, but quickly realised we probabaly would not make it back to campus in our 2 hour limit considering our "tandem skill level." Our second incident happened right after we succesfully were able to ride the bike.
Hollie was in the front of our bike and was a champ at steering. I on the other hand, eventually became a good partner after I stopped freaking out and squealing. We were riding down University Parkway together, and as we were driving past a gas station exit we saw a car rolling forward. We made eye contact with the driver and assumed she would stop for us to roll on by (especially considering we did not look like we had control of the bike, and we both had looks of horror on plastered on our faces). BUT. She didn't stop. She hit us. And our bike squished up her liscence plate like you squish an alumminum can against your head. WE GOT HIT BY A CAR. ON A TADEM BIKE. I could not even believe at that point what was happening and lost control in laughter.
We eventually made it down to the Riverwoods and had subway for lunch. The trek back home was 100% better than at first for us, once we developed a little system of mounting and dismounting. :]
It ended up being one of the funniest/scarriest adventures I have ever had. We all returned home with grease stains and scratches on our legs, and sunburns covering our bodies.
Good Provo had some solid entertainment on its streets Monday afternoon courtesy of helmet-head-tandem-bike-riding Lex 23. Boy did it.
#27 is crossed offfff!
Here's to adventures & SPRING TERM.
Let the games begin.
