Bike to Breakfast

Hey everyone!
Sorry I haven't posted in a while...

Well, anyway, on the 15th of February a group of us homeschoolers (only Jarrod and me from our family) (homeschoolers are awesome, by the way =)lol) met at the Rakete's house (at 7am... =(  )and we all rode to Manukau City together, for Bike to Breakfast...basically you ride there (all the way from the carpark in one family's case lol!...) and they give you free food!! =) [oh and this year-free (thin though) backpacks with various things like punture repair kit, slap-band, drink bottle, etc in them] This year they had various cereals, yoghurt, scones, muffins, fruit, and possible a couple of other things..sorry  can't remember... AND...they had a coffee van!!! Unfortunately they weren't able to supply Esther's Cappamochahotchocolate (pronounced Cappa-mocha-hot-chocolate!), so we all decided hot chocolates would be ok instead. =)

After most of us had finished eating, one of the people running it asked to take a photo of us, so we all got on the grass with our bikes (shhh, don't tell, we might get in trouble!! lol) for photo 1, then photo 2 was all the girls, and last of all, photo 3 was the guys, which seeing as I obviously wasn't in it, I got a photo of (after the main photo had been taken, that's why there's a couple of other people in it =) ) -

And, no, us girls weren't showing off like this in our photo!

The clown in the above pic (Jingles I think his name was), had brought along some unusual bikes - a large unicycle, a very small unicycle, and another one that i won't try to explain, so you'll have to wait for the photos - I'll point it out in one of them =)
Jingles also juggled fire and knives. Some pics:

Juggling Fire



Alan blows out the fire-sticks (unfortunately for him it was
a losing battle, as 2 were always lit!)

Alan prepares to eat fire!

View these two pics together - say goodbye to your hand, Alan!

Juggling knives

Nice juggling Mark! =) ok, ok, he was pretty good,
but this pic is funnier..lol

Sometime later (after the organisers had left!) we all went back to the Rakete's, where Jarrod's bike tube was changed as it had a puncture - check back again soon as I will try to get a picture of this!
And J and I arrived home about 10am, tired, and not at all feeling like doing school work!

Well dinner's ready, so I better go...
Bee

Bike to Breakfast

Hi again!

Well, I can't be bothered writing anything new about Bike to Breakfast, so I'll just use an article I wrote for the Term 2 homeschool newsletter. =)

At approximately 7am on Wednesday February 17th, a group of homeschoolers met at the Rakete’s. The group consisted of the Rakete’s (obviously)!, Aiken’s, Crummer’s, Mrs Rakete’s Mum-Jill Hall-, a couple of the Rakete’s cousins, Irene and Bernie Corbett, my brother Jarrod and me.


To look more like a ‘group’ we all wore weet-bix t-shirts.

When everyone was ready (that didn’t take to long) we organised ourselves into two groups – the ‘fast group’, and the ‘slow group’- I was in the fast group. Then we left for Manukau City.

We rode around the car park while waiting for the ‘slow group.’ When they FINALLY(!!) arrived we all headed for the lawn by the ANZ.

There were very few people there, so we had plenty of room for throwing Frisbees (or hitting people with them because they didn’t really work as Frisbees!), using the ‘slap bracelets’ – orange reflective strip on top, black fabric on back, they’re about 40cm long, and look kinda like rulers. You hold them out straight, then hit someone (fairly hard) on the arm, and it wraps around them.

They had a sausage sizzle, hash browns, Nutri-grain, Weetbix, heaps of other cereals, tinned peaches, juice, milo, tea & coffee, and probably heaps more that I have forgotten!

We all (or most of us teens anyway!) thought their choice of music was .. hmm...interesting? They played Amazing Grace, and Silent Night!

Well anyway, we talked for a while, and did the afore-said activities!

We then took some photo’s and left.

My brother and I had to bike home from the Rakete’s, and we got absolutely SATURATED!!!

However, despite the rain, it was an experience that I believe was greatly enjoyed by all.

Back from left: Rueben Rakete, Mrs Rakete, Joel Aiken, Caleb Rakete, Irene Corbett, Reagen Crummer, Alan Aiken, Miriama Rakete, Bianca Jago
Front from left: Mrs Aiken, Danielle Aiken, ?, Cleo Crummer, Bernice Corbett, ?, Jarrod Jago, Jessemae Aiken, Timothy Aiken, ? Abigail Rakete, ?, Katie Joy Aiken

Ok, well I think I got those names correct! Hope I did...

CYA,
Bee