On one of our Labor Day trips to Aunt Mary's cabin the kids had brought their bikes. There is little to no traffic on the roads so the kids could ride from sun-up to sun-down as much as they wanted. And ride they did.
On the last day of our weekend we were getting packed up to go home. The kids took off on their last bike ride before they had to load them in the truck. About 5 minutes after the kids had headed down the road Erik came tearing back into the yard with a worried look on his face. "Katie's hurt!" We all take off down the road looking for our little lost adventurer.
As we are walking down the road we can hear Katie crying, but we can't see her ANYWHERE! When we call to her we hear her voice off on the edge of the road. After a little looking we found her lying in the brush on the opposite side of the ditch, unable to get up because she was caught in a tangle of ferns and saplings.
As we untangled her and hauled her out of the brush we made sure she was not hurt. We found her bike right next to her, lying in a similar mess. Once everyone and everything was on the road we assessed the situation. Katie had managed to ride her bike down one side of the 2 foot road side ditch and up the other side, ending up about 3 foot in to the woods. We were amazed at her ability to get so far in the woods and that she did so without getting hurt. She must have built up quite a bit of speed before her mishap.
At that time Erik pipes in "We were racing and she was in the lead.". We turn and asked him what happened. "I don't know, she was there one minute and then she just disappeared! I heard her crying but I couldn't see her anywhere."
As we were walking back to the cabin Katie begins to calm down a little bit. She is almost calm enough for us to understand what she is saying so we can ask her what happened. That is when Grandma saw her. This started a whole new round of crying, especially with Grandma's second question. After making sure her little granddaughter was not hurt she asked "Katie, where are your glasses?". Oh man, we all forgot she has been wearing her glasses as they had gone off on their final race.
Off we go again, looking for more wreckage from the big crash. It was MUCH easier now to find the site of the accident and managed to find her glasses about 5 feet away from where Katie landed, lying at the bottom of the ditch. She must have gone into that ditch at top speed!
When we got back to the cabin Katie had settled down once again, and stopped crying completely when she saw we found her glasses. We were finally able to ask her what happened.
"Well, Erik and I were having a race. We were going to see who could get to the end of the road and back to the cabin again the fastest." Okay, so far we were following her, but still didn't know how she managed to get in the ditch. "Then I remembered what Doc said to Lightening in Cars when he was learning to race on dirt." Now we are getting somewhere. Those of you who have seen the movie can probably guess what was said next. "I don't know how I ended up in the ditch, I did what Doc said. I turned left to go right!"
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