Saturday, February 16, 2008

Her trusty steed!

One thing is for certain. In all our lives we must have transportation of some kind. Whether we like to fly, boat, train, bicycle, roller blade, kyak, bus or whatever way you like to get around, we all know that transportation is a means of getting to wherever we want to go.

Patricia's birthday is coming up and her "trusty steed" has had a few minor issues lately. We've replaced the tires 2-3 times as well as the intertubes and we are on the second horn (a must for a 5 yr. old) and the seat is continously turning sideways. The handlebar covers are in bad shape and the fringes of ribbon long gone. Her basket came off a long time ago and we never got around to replacing it. Not to mention that she is getting so tall and the current bike is a 16in. So it was time for a new one.

With her birthday coming up, we were trying to think what we could get her when my mom asked if she needed a new bike. Tom thought she could use one especially considering the condition of the current one. Mom told Tom to shop around and to get with her and they would go and get a new bike.

Tom went to the Village Bike Shop in HS and we found this bike...

The neat thing about this one is it is alluminum. In Florida metal tends to rust. It doesn't take long for that to happen. So Tom was determined that the next bike would be alluminum to prevent it from rusting. Patricia picked out the color and the bike shop put it together. She picked out a 20in bike and didn't have any trouble at all getting on it and taking off. The not-so-neat thing about it was the price. It was a little more pricey than I thought we should pay, but Mom wanted her to have it so we pitched in along with her Grandparents from Ohio and bought the bike. We gave it to her early so that the Ohio GP's could see it too.

The main thing is she is happy and has been every where on it. The hardest thing for her to get used to was the brake on the handlebar. Once she got the hang of it she was off riding into the sunset on her "trusty steed."

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