Bicycle Built for 10

Navy Pier

(how perfect to have a sailor in the foreground?)

These 3 were super giddy and ready to bike

And so we did!
We rode off the Pier before we picked up Krista and Anders.
Apparently the bike company doesn't approve of infants in slings on these rides...but we had to try anyway, right?

These girls kind of stole the show and I bet at least 10 different tourists photographed them as they saw us approaching

Taking a little break.
As we rode along the bike path we had the towering city on one side of us and the beautiful blue lake on the other. We lucked out with a perfectly sunny day too.

Livvies and the Lake

All 10 of us

The kids loved this thing! Bentley was so sad we only had 4 sets of pedals because he was dying to help move us along.
The best part of the ride was watching Joseph and Johnny in the front seats. Johnny's steering wheel actually directed the bike while Joseph's was just there for fun. They kept directing us toward a big group of people and then Joseph would frantically spin his steering wheel like he was trying to turn but couldn't--and then Johnny would steer us out of the way at the last minute. Maybe you had to be there (Krista and I were dying with laughter) but it was pretty funny. The onlookers terrified faces were just too fun.

All that riding wore this sweetie right out. Luckily we had her new pink penguin from Shedd to prop her head up :)

Later that day we had our family pictures taken at Lighthouse Beach...more on those later...

5 PJ cousins
They gathered like this every night to watch a little show before bed--we needed a little downtime after busy, busy days.