Gardens, suspension bridge and frogs

As I mentioned in an earlier post, the Globe bike is out of commission, so the bike ride we planned on the Redmond Trail was off.  We decided to go for a long walk to the Bellevue Botanical Gardens.  Round trip was somewhere between two and three miles.  This was my daughter, wife and myself.

Trail Head

It was such a nice day for a pleasant walk.  We have a nice wooded park that includes two baseball fields, a playground, soccer fields, miles of trails, and of course the Bellevue Botanical Gardens.

The frog statue near the visitor center.  A little girl kissed it as we walked up!

Is that a hobbit hole??

Last year the gardens added a suspension bridge over a little ravine.  It is pretty cool to see and walk across.    

It was a great day for a pleasant walk through the park.  If you have not been to these gardens, they are very beautiful when everything is in bloom.  They occasionally have concerts at the park in the summer as well.  In December they decorate it with thousands of light and call it the Garden D'lights, that is pretty awesome as well.  The only negatives are that you cannot ride your bikes in the gardens, though you can always ride to the garden and they go by foot.  The other negative is no dogs, so we had to leave Chip, our big yellow lab, at home.  He was bummed to see us going for a walk without him.  Hopefully next weekend we can get in a good ride!!

Chris