Our new place is very close to Iron Horse Trail. At 40 miles long this stretch of land used to be part of the right-of-way of the Southern Pacific Railroad. This trail's great because we can cruise along without worrying about the kids as we would on sidewalks or in the bike lane.
You do have to keep an eye out for the occasional nitwit cyclist who decides this pedestrian trail is a good place to test out his top gear. Christopher almost got creamed by a guy who had to be going 18 or 20 miles an hour. This was going downhill, I'm convinced he couldn't go that fast on flat ground... but that's probably because he almost hit my son.
Central Park is about 3 miles up the trail. We stopped off at Jamba Juice before the park for a quick smoothie. Then we hit the tennis courts.
Rules of the game:1. There is no out of bounds
2. The ball has to be in bounds when it goes over the net
3. More than one bounce is preferred
The kids really had a great time. Jacob figured out pretty quickly that he was quite good at serving if he came all the way up to the net and hit the ball straight out of bounds. He scored a lot of points this way. Smart kid!
Christopher played very well. We had a number of pretty good volleys. He has become quite a competitive kid. He seems to have this inner drive to be great (or think he's great) at everything. I'm not sure where he gets that...
Cayla was quite good as well. On our trip to Coloma, her teacher mentioned to me that Cayla was very competitive and sometimes driven (not her exact words). I was a little surprised to hear it, but she's definitely right. She is a very competitive little girl.
The shot below didn't go exactly as she had intended, but it made for a great picture.
See a map of our route here.
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