After I returned from the Inauguration Parade, I joined the rest of the family (and neighborhood friends) for a family bike ride down the Middle Crabtree Creek greenway. Unlike all the other times the kids joined us for rides, this time they pedaled their own bikes – thanks to the amazing invention known as a Balance Buddy.
Kelly and I jogged after Hallie and Travis as they rode their bikes along the boardwalk and back. It was about 3 miles total (to add to the 6 I already walked) and left us all feeling great.
January 10, 2009
Inauguration Parade
This morning K and I split up the things needing doing. She took the kids on errands and I was given the task of wearing out our dog. After seeing F/A-18s fly over our home this morning, I got the idea of taking the dog with me to see the Governor Perdue’s Inauguration Parade. As I remembered that local amateur radio operators would be assisting in the parade, I grabbed my dual-band HT and Rocket and I began walking.
The walk from here to Fayetteville Street takes a little over 30 minutes. We got there just as the parade was beginning. I must have made the security teams nervous with my backpack and a radio on my belt, but also having a big, dumb Labrador kind of evened that out.
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