Biking + Roller Derby = Awesome Weekend!

Saturday my Dad, Paul, and myself met up with some riders in Lincoln and took part in a bike ride that they had put on. This bike ride was 85 miles long, but we only decided to do about 16 miles of it...

and you can clearly see why as we were left in the dust from the first couple miles out.

I have to admit I was very impressed with these trails, I wasn't even aware that this trail even existed in Lincoln, and how nice they have been able to maintain these trails as well.

With the help of my GPS we were able stay on track!

Paul later had to head out to play music, and then my Dad and I headed out to search for Wilderness Park...

which lead to some interesting bridges that I've never seen before while riding around Wilderness Park. This bridge looks like railroad tracks...

while this bridge was a bit more spook because you couldn't exactly tell how stable this thing was.

This was overall a great day for a bike ride, especially in Wilderness Park, where we were out of the strong wind, and into the wilderness ready to explore!

That evening we headed to Pershing Event Center to watch our Aunt along with her team compete in what's called "Roller Derby". I wasn't quite sure what it was, or what to expect but after finally figuring out what the objective of the game is, it was quite entertaining to watch.

This was the second game which was the more experienced teams, and this team was able to win by over 50 points!

This weekend was overall a great way to spend time. Getting close to 30 miles in while at the same time being able to avoid busy roads, and then being able to sit back and watch some roller derby.

Saturday Joy Ride

Saturday afternoon my dad, Paul Siebert, and I decided to go for a 7 mile bike ride. It was a great day to ride especially right after the 14 inches of snow we previously received the past few days before. It was a great day to ride, and later on that night we were able to listen to Paul and other musicians sing down at the winery.

My dad and Paul

And again, about half way through the ride.

You can tell that a good amount of the snow has melted since the previous snow.

All in all this was a great little ride, and hopefully this will also be the last of the snow, so we're able to get out more and ride bike!

Sunday Ride

Heading out of town on Sunday with wind at my back. It was a great 22 miler right before the snow hit Paxton.

Train catching up behind.

Overall it was a great little ride with great weather, wasn't to great coming back having 10-15 mile an hour winds. 

Trip to Sweden!

On Friday my Mom, Olivia and I headed out of Lincoln and off to Sweden for a week to visit Dakota who was anxiously waiting for us to get there. This was our first plane at the Lincoln airport, this plane would take us to Chicago.

Not a great picture, but this was coming into Chicago. 

Our second plane which was much bigger! This took us in the air and off to Copenhagen Denmark which was 8 hours away. 

Great technology these days that we were able to watch our plane landing in the Copenhagen airport on a little touch screen in front of our seat. We could also watch movies, play games, check on the flight info, and listen to music. Without this it would have made the flight seem much longer then what it really was.

Made it to Sweden! And had a great sleep that night after being up for around 30 hours!

Dakota, Mom, and Olivia standing in front of the sauna's where people would go in, and then take stairs down to the ocean to cool down! We didn't get a chance to do this, which I wasn't disappointed that we didn't because the water looked super cold!

Again...

Some crazy chairs, I think Dakota said that they move these around the city every month if I'm right.

A statue of the guy looking over at Denmark making sure that they're not going to invade Sweden.

Another picture with Olivia standing in front.

Ebbas Fik, which was a Elvis type of restaurant that we had breakfast at.

Espresso shop where we first stopped at when we got to Sweden.

We decided to go to a store in town and gather up some good food and had a Swedish meal together.

Kaviar and Ansjovis! 

Mom and Dakota, also right by Dakota's head to the right is a man that was out there fishing, kinda funny how he was so far out there!

On our way to the castle!

Us three outside of the King and Queens summer castle.

A church that Dakota has gone to a couple of times. Very old and had a lot of great architecture to it.

Glass window.

Another picture of the inside looking out into the pews. There were also a couple of people that were sleeping in the pews.

A great view of some of Sweden, and also the boats going back in forth from Sweden to Denmark every 20 minutes.

And again.

Waiting for the bus.

Very neat idea for a house!

Dakota's rotarian took us all over the countryside to let us get another great look of Sweden. 

A great picture that Dakota got of a windmill along the drive. 

Mom, Dakota, and Olivia.

This guy was pretty committed to riding his bike to work, as were a lot of other Swedish people. 

Statue in Denmark

Waiting on the train to go to Malmo. 

Look out tower in Helsinbörg Sweden.

Dakota and I went to the top!

There were rooms as we went up, and some of them were pretty spooky inside, especially because we were the only ones there.

Finally on top and what a great view!

Dakota celebrating after our great climb up to the top of the tower.

Another picture. 

Heading to Denmark, and to the castle. You can tell it was quite cold and the water was froze in some places.

The castle and the moat around it. 

Inside the castle.

Some great deserts that we bought in Denmark. 

Here was a picture of what the ferry that we took looked like.

Fika with Dakota's friends.

This was when we had dinner with Dakota's first host family, and their dog named Isa.

Our appetizer that we shared on the ferry our last day there. 

Pea soup with shrimp, very good!

Another great view of the sky.

Their cheese was pretty good I have to admit!

 Dinner at the B&B where we had sausage links, raw salmon, cheese, olives, bread, and a few other things.

One last view of our B&B our room was the middle floor and the left room.

And waiting for our flight out of Copenhagen Denmark. Sad to say goodbye, but will see Dakota in 5 months which will go by fast and was a great experience to go to Sweden.