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Lots of Butterflies!

I like to walk on a bike path near my husbands work.

We got a nice surprise on our last visit of hundreds of butterflies!

We would be walking and suddenly they were everywhere!

They really liked to land on the back of my neck.
It did freak me out a bit but I tried to keep my cool since I was the adult.

Ha My girls went between loving it and freaking out. They seemed to like my oldests’ daughters bright shirt. My two younger girls were not very happy that they were not getting landed on. I believe they are Painted Lady Butterflies. Little bit was being chased by a butterfly. This one did not want to leave and just hung out for a long time. I decided this was a good time to try getting a shot with all my kids in it! I was wrong.

I did not get one shot with everyone looking.

HA

Oh well, we will just go with a nice casual shot. Trying to be super still so a butterfly will land on them. She did not like her pet butterfly moving to her neck… He thought it was funny. She freaked out right after this.

Yes, I took a video.

But also I helped move the butterfly along.

Ha

She finally got a butterfly!

It ended up staying with her the rest of the time! Her butterfly flew off before we could get one more pic. This one did not want to leave.I was told by one of my daughters that this was the best walk ever!

Check out the video I made of all the butterflies!

Warning, might contain squealing.

TREC ~Bike Trail in Effingham, ILL

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Whenever we are going to visit my family in Indiana, we like to stop at Effingham, ILL.

This is the first time I had seen anything about this bike trail though.

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It was nice to get out and run around!

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It is a beautiful trail also!

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It took a lot to get my kids to stop getting in the shot of just Nick and I…

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Snake!

Nick moved it off the trail.

Glad we have a new place to run off some energy after the long drive through Illinois.

 It can be difficult to find the entrances so make sure you read up on it before you go.

There website is, here.

Bixby Bike Path

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Over memorial day weekend we went for a bike ride on the bike paths in Bixby!

Nick is training for an upcoming race and we are too slow for him…

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He ran, we rode.

It was actually pretty nice.

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The trail starts in Bentley Park and continues to become the Bixby Fry Creek Trail for 2 miles.

In total you can get around 9 miles round trip if you go end to end.

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I did figure out that I am not used to sitting on a bike for that long.

Ouch…

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This really is a very pretty trail.

It is less crowded than the riverside trails as well.

I like that for the boys.

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I am always nervous they are going to run into someone on riverside.

Do you ride bikes as a family?

Do you have a favorite path in the Tulsa area?