Easter Sunday 2011

After attending the "sunrise" service at my church at 8:15 this past Sunday, I headed down to the Lorton area to explore the Laurel Hill trails system. I've been hearing for the past year or so about these trails, but had never been or explored them myself. So I hopped on the mountain bike and set off to see what the terrain was like. 

Actually, the night before I had looked up a trail map and directions so I at least had a small inkling of what was in store, but looking at colored lines on a map is entirely different from seeing the trails while riding. Here's the website that I used to read about and find the trails: Trail Voice: Laurel Hill Trails Here's a quick overview of my ride, and you'll see that the gps tracking lines I made are [almost] identical to the trail map. [I did the blue loop twice, and used the Cross County Trail a couple times as well to connect the different areas.]

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After an hour and change, 11.5 mile ride, I headed over to my parents house to celebrate Easter. As with many families, we always do an Easter egg hunt, and it's now become my job to go out and hide all the eggs before the hunt. I try and get pretty creative and sneaky with the hiding of the eggs, making it difficult to find them all, I'm sure we've lost a couple over the years. But once I'm done hiding the eggs, everyone participating in the hunt gather just inside the front door ready to be let loose. My extremely competitive caring sister, Erika tends to end up with the most, but that's because she will bull rush ya to get an egg. As a spectator, it's almost like being at the colosseum.....okay not really, but you get what I'm trying to say. Either way it usually produces a couple really good photos. Below is a great shot of everyone charging out the front door at the start of the hunt.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!