Weekend with the Grands: Learning to Ride a Quad

The weather was so beautiful on a recent weekend (before all the snow rolled in) so we took the grandkids quad out in the desert for a picnic and some 4 wheeling fun (well as much as they can have at 2.5 miles per hours).  We recently bought the kids this little electric quad.  It can be set to either 2.5 mph or 5 mph.  Since they are still learning how to maneuver it, without running over us of the dogs, we've left it at the 2.5 mph setting for now.  The kids feel like they are really cruizin on this thing.  They take turns riding and sometimes they like to ride it together.  Then when one of them gets it stuck in a rut, the other jumps off and pushes to help get it going again.  Mr Holly rode a dirt bike from the time he was old enough to balance the thing so he is anxious to get the grands started riding dirt bikes and quads.

Little Man taking off on his quad.

They took to driving the quad pretty quick, except I think we may be a bad influence on them because Little Miss insisted on eating her PB&J sandwich (which she made herself) while driving.  She said we grown-ups do it so she can too...oops!

"Little Miss Driving & Eating" they model after us...guess we need to correct this bad habit!

They scared us for a minute when they were riding together and passed behind the van where their juice bottles filled with chocolate milk were sitting.  Little Miss says to Little Man, "Let's stop at the 'bar' and get a drink"  (WHAT?!?)  Just so you know, we don't drink and if we did, we certainly would never drink and drive!!  Then Little Miss says, "this is our Chocolate Milk Bar!" so as it turns out her 'bar' was perfectly innocent.

"The Milk Bar"

Little Miss & Little Man riding together.

It was a very full weekend and we were all feeling pretty content on the Sunday evening ride back to mom's house.  We wont have the kids for the next two weekends because they go to their dads (they have two weekends with him, then two with us) but I am already thinking about ideas for our next weekend together.  What fun activities do you like to do with your grands?