Barnston Island - A Great way to Spend a Holiday Monday

Raring to go - crossing over on the ferry... which is a loving term for this tugboat-steamed barge.

Better than biking any day :) This ride was a favorite.

My focus is all wrong but these two had a fun day together.

This is the last we would see of our group behind us :)

Never fear, we didn't see too many of our group but because I gave the camera to Cara we got 51 nearly identical pictures of Cody riding ahead of us. :)
Once Sam and Steve passed we stayed last, went out 2.3 km, realized that was a mistake and went back that many past the ferry landing to go 1.7km the other way.  By that time our absence caused a wee kafuffle. Oops!

Cody did amazing for finally deciding two wheel bikes are cool but that's still a long ways to go when your legs have to make 3489 revolutions per minute.  Well, that may be an exaggeration but those little tires sure require a lot of leg work.
After he had biked a good 2.5 km I loaded him and his bike up and ran for a nice long way.  When I met another family I asked them to please take a picture so I could have it if I ever needed a, "after ALL I've done for you" picture :)

Super group we went with!  Thankfully we could get this picture after all the search and rescue personnel were back again.  (Sam did the whole route a second time when he went out with Steve to look for me and the lunch twins)

Thankfully because of one person's kind offer we even got this....

and this!

So thankful for a safe trip on the highway and going the opposite way of the busiest traffic!! :)