Spooktacular

It had been several weeks since Chris and I got out for a mountain bike ride, so we were excited when, midweek, the weather forecast for the weekend looked really pleasant. We arranged a babysitter for Saturday morning and went to ride Mary's loop - I was a little afraid that our start time of 9 AM would make it uncomfortable cold but it was perfect. We rode a bit further than our usual route at Mary's loop, connecting with Steve's loop to make a total of 18 miles. We rode over several rocky obstacles that we hadn't cleared before on the tandem, and we had no pinch flats.

It was beautiful: a completely clear, crisp blue sky, the ponderous gray-green Colorado beneath red canyon walls and sage green hillside, lined with brilliant yellow cottonwoods. The trail was starting to get busy as we were finishing up, so our early start worked out well all around.

In the evening, we took a family bike ride on the blue tandem + Chariot to go to Spooktacular, a Halloween event downtown. Main Street was closed to car traffic, and most of the shops on Main were giving out candy to trick-or-treaters. There were kids in costumes all up and down the sidewalks. Cailan didn't really trick-or-treat last year and he still was not that interested in it. What was most fun to him was when we went in to the instrument store and played pianos and drums.