bicycle built for two

Bob and I have very fond pre-kid memories of renting a tandem bike and taking nice long summer Saturday bike rides along Bear Creek near our old house. Those were the days when we thought these would be the days but turns out those were some pretty good days. Anyway, it was always our dream to get ourselves a tandem bike & start new fond memories of nice long Saturday family bike rides.

So, we put a tandem bike on our wish list this year (thinking I'd be keeping my fabulously high paying job...which only lasted 2 days...and we could finally make the purchase we've been waiting to make). Once that job went by the wayside, and before I had the chance to erase our dreams from the list, my fabulous sisters-in-law spotted that tandem bike on our list, bought it, and had it delivered as an early Christmas/birthday/next Christmas present! I think they might have thought it was a joke item on our list but I don't think they realize that they really did make our day...our week...our year!!

It was quite a sweet surprise when that big, huge box arrived on our front porch...and a bit of a scare when we opened the box and realized that...oh dear...we'd have to assemble parts of it ourselves (including the brakes!!). We thought that sort of construction project might be a marriage-buster, for sure, but it turned out to be relatively painless...once we scoured all our junk drawers and basement shelves and boxes in the garage for the appropriate tools (next year a big tool kit might be on the list). It also might have helped our numb fingers to have had a temperature higher than 45 to tighten bolts and adjust screws but we just couldn't wait one more day!!

Finally...after all the 'where's that wrenchy thing' and 'can't you read?' and 'are these directions in Chinese?' comments were out of the way, there was a little thing called success!!

Thanks Pam, Cindy, Lisa, Kendal, Aaron, Yvonne & Olivia!
This is what "AT LAST" looks like!