President's Day weekend fun

Shawn has been wanting to go down to Hagerman to ride all winter. It has been just too cold to go. I asked if he wanted to take the family trail riding with him. He decided that would be an okay plan. We thought over President's Day weekend would be perfect. We would go down and spend the night at Grandpa Manwaring's house. We would go swimming at 1000 springs and go trail riding. Aaahh, what a wonderful weekend it would be. Well, Blakely had skiing so out went the spending the night. We said it will still be okay we'll just go down for the day. We headed down and unloaded. Dad didn't know what he was in for with taking his family that had never trail ridden before. His son crashed and would not get back on. His wife and daughter kept stalling and he would have to come back and rescue us. His other daughter would only ride in first gear. By the time we got half way down the trail he was ready to give up. We headed back to truck. I told him to go and ride while we stayed by the truck. I then encouraged Blakely and Katelyn to practice going up and down hills. We watched other riders zooming up and down monster hills. Garret climbed the monster hill. Shawn came back and taught Blakely and Mom how to go up and down hills. We rode on a few trails until Brady was shivering. It finally turned out okay. We loaded up and headed to 1000 springs. After spending $37 the kids were hungry and ready to go within the hour. Shawn and I tried to decide if 1 hour was worth the $37 spent. Probably not, so we stayed 30 more min.(much better)We headed to Grandpa's to quickly clean out his fridge and have a snack. We headed home as fast as we could because there were no tail lights on the trailer. All in all a good day, just maybe we will do better next time.