Leavenworth

Steve is training for the Dirty Kanza in June so that means lots of biking and races on the weekends.  He biked the Cool Hand Luke Gravel Grinder in Leavenworth and we tagged along.  Of course we had to see the prison.  It was pretty impressive.  But then I had to field questions from the girls about what people do to get into prison...

The main reason we were there: hotel pool.  I can not explain how excited the girls were to go to a hotel pool.  They looked forward to it all week.  Then when we actually went swimming it was like Christmas morning.

 Swimming can really wear you out.

After Steve's race (he placed 5th), we did a family bike ride on the Three Mile Creek Trail.  It was short, but Olive can't do much biking before she starts complaining about "tired legs."  There were lots of stops to play in the creek and look at trains.

Then we checked out the C. W. Parker Carousel Museum.

Olive started out on the mini horses that didn't really move.  She wanted me to ride beside her even though my horse is clearly upset by hauling all that weight.

Eventually she got on a big horse next to Hannah and loved it!  This was her first time riding a carousel without me.  And it was the fastest carousel I've ever seen!