Some Of My Favorite (Summer) Things: Ice Cream

Summer is about ice cream, right?

Can you guess my favorite (if I HAD to pick one, that is-) ice cream? I need time to think about my favorite....hmmm. Let me think for a moment or two....

Instead, I will show you what I have been doing to combat this love of ice cream:

Biking.
We have a four mile trek that we do every day or every other day.
The first few minutes, my thighs are screaming, and I am thinking of all the things I could be doing instead.
But eventually, the thighs quiet down, and I can listen to and notice the beauty of what is around me.
We've seen deer,
beautiful wild flowers,
squirrels, (a dead chipmunk...)
and we hear a million and one birds chirping.
Sometimes~ when Tin Man is here, he motivates me to go a bit farther.
We can make it six miles (round trip) to the State Park with the playground.
And sometimes,
we get out our trail-along bike for our six year old, and head on a nine mile (round trip) bike ride to the hot dog stand in town.
The nine mile one just about kills me. If I do that one too often-
my thighs are complaining way too much!
Where am I biking today, you may be wondering?

We are touring Mackinac Island-on our bikes this very minute.

(I may need a double scoop as my reward for this!)

(...who is usually known as~)

(Oh-And my favorite summer ice cream? Ben and Jerry's Cheesecake Brownie:...now you know why I have been doing so much biking!)