Our Bike Trips with Alex

This is becoming so much fun!  I need to hurry up and finish blogging about 2010 before we go on our ski trip!  Today, I miss Missouri warm, colorful fall.  Last fall was gorgeous and unusually long.  We "paid" for it with the heavy snow in the winter.  I think our bike trips with Alex during that time of the year are my favorite.  He does not always want to go, but once he starts biking he gets into it and in the end we all have fun. 

Below is my all times favorite view on the trail.  You have to earn it.  It takes about 20 minutes biking from our house on the MKT trail and 5 min. of pretty steep hike to get there.  I don't have to coax him much to do it.  He enjoys climbing those wooden stairs, never stops looking for those arrowheads!  We never found one there...

If we turn right on the trail biking from our house, we can ride to the winery.  It is a very short (about 6 miles) ride to the Bistro, my favorite restaurant.  I like the food, but I absolutely love the view from there.  It was the first place we went out to in Missouri, before we officially moved here from Michigan. 

It was a perfect fall day, right after I came back from my week long visit in Poland.  We had dinner, watched the sunset and rode back in the dark!  I remember Alex was scarred to ride down the connector, it would be smart to have lights with us, but none of us thought about taking any.  Oh, well...we survived and I am sure will do it again in the dark with no lights. 

Sunday walk in our woods.  Alex is changing every day.  The last 2 months brought so many changes.  He is taller than me and is starting to sound like a man! 

Alex "blowing out" the snow. 

Just handsome.