Monday July 25, trolls and flights

Last night we stayed in Mt. Horeb, the town with a "trollway."  One of the troll statues was right outside the door of our hotel with the bikes parked nearby.  The grandsons had a lot of fun putting a bike helmet on the troll's head and climbing all over it.  To rejoin the trail, we had to go down a steep downhill into the Sugar River valley.  (a challenge for the driver biking back to the hotel!) Rejoining the trail, we heard chainsaws ahead--the park service was out clearing the trail.  We still had a few obstacles to portage over and around, but then good after that.  
Today was a similar configuration except that we replaced the Cannondale trailer with a tag-along and carried the water in the second seat of the WeeHoo. 
We had lunch at the trailside park in Verona.  Then onwards following a variety of trails, including probably the only bike roundabout in the country where several trails converge, then near the south shore of Lake Monona.  We found a ice cream shop that served "flights:" 4 scoops of ice cream in hollows along a wooden tray. Kay went inside and got a list of the flavors. Then we paired up, 2 people from the same family per flight, and each got to pick 2 flavors. Then a couple people went back in with the order written down and got 6 flights of ice cream, plus his own dish for the smallest grandson as we had an odd number of people. After that, it was a short trip to our hotel for the night on the east side of Madison (and time in the pool for many of us!)

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  1. Bill and PennyAugust 3, 2022 at 6:06 AM

    Did our hearts good to see all those grandkids with Jim. Ice cream didn't look too bad either!

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