As Easy as Riding a Bike

The communities along 30-A (Rosemary Beach, Seacrest Beach, Alys Beach, Seaside, Watercolor, etc.) are famous for the abundance of bicycles.  This is because there is a bike trail that is near the road that goes for miles and miles.  There are a lot of places to rent bikes, so at any time of day you'll see many people, often entire families, riding bikes.  I decided I wanted to do this with Joshua and Clara using one of the bike trailers.  So today I rented a bike from the shop with the brightly-colored bikes as well as a trailer.  It only holds two kids, and Hannah wouldn't have enjoyed it much anyway, so she stayed at home.  We rode quite a ways up 30-A and back.  The kids seemed to like it well enough.  They were screened in which protected them from the sun but also gave them a breeze, though by the end of our 12-mile ride we were all a little hot and tired, so we stopped in Rosemary Beach at the Sugar Shak for some ice cream.  We then went across the street to the Summer Kitchen again (which made Clara's third time there this trip) for lunch.  We then rode back home for naptime.  I went for a run this morning (unfortunately the only one I was able to get in during the trip), so I was pretty physically tired at this point.  Meghan and I took advantage of our respite and sat and relaxed on our patio for a couple hours.  We later all went to the pool again, which is now our go-to activity whenever we have time.  We hadn't planned the bike activity ahead of time, so that was a pleasant surprise addition to the trip and something we'll definitely do again if we go back, but probably by then Hannah will want to go too, so Meghan would have to end her two-decade biking drought.  But they say you never forget, right?