Day 22 - St,. Croix Falls to Wausau, WI

Woke up early this morning, around 6:30am, and made plans for a bike ride today. I settled on a ride around the Dells Of The Eau Claire River Park. The ride is described in this book extract. After a quick breakfast and packing, we leave the hotel at 9:45am.

On the way out of town, we pass a cool fireworks retail sign

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You just don't get that around where we live.

Day 22 - mile 5758
1:02pm

Arrive at the park for the ride. We're hungry, so first we have a little picnic lunch with some of the food we've been hauling around.

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2:10pm

The bikes are assembled and it's off on the ride.

I modify the ride a little to cut off about 4 miles (the published length is 14.8 miles). Good thing because Katie told me that her butt hurt around mile 7.

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3:00pm

We finish the ride, about 10 miles. Katie recovers quickly and trots down to the dells.

There are alot of people hanging around.

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Include these yahoos jumping off the high rocks despite signs warning that it's dangerous. I discourage Katie from attempting it, but the warning is unnecessary.
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Katie takes a spin in the playground at the park before we hit the road.

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[click here for a video of Katie doing her monkey bar routine]

Day 22 - mile 5780
4:45pm

We arrive at our hotel, the Jefferson St. Inn, in downtown Wausau. After showing and changing, we head down to dinner.

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8:10pm

Dinner's done, we head back to the room where it's bed jumping and pajama dancing time.
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Time for bed. Back to Neenah tomorrow to put the family back together.