My First Segway Ride
My daughters had some friends spend the night last night. So.. that made one male (me) in a house with 7-8 girls. Needless to say I left early this morning to get out.
We have a full family pass to Thanksgiving point here in Utah so I figured I’d stop by their “gardens” to have a look and see what it was like. As I got there I saw Segways… The gardens are pretty big.. 50+ acres I think. So I figured.. why not. I have never ridden a Segway and 50+ acres is a lot of walking. $20 later and 3 minutes of training and I was off.
Segways are awesome. It was an absolute blast zipping around the trails and taking in the smells of flowers, nectar, dirt and trees. About an hour later I had seen pretty much everything and ran around the park again taking pictures on my cell phone.
Pictures follow…..
All these were taking pretty quickly while riding the Segway with one hand.
You know the funny thing… Most groups I saw were 2 girls and one guy. The girls were obviously mother and daughter looking at ideas for wedding photos and the guy looked like he was just there cuz he had to be.
This really *is* a moth
And just for fun, here it the WP gallery of these photos…
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- Purple flowers
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- Some gazebo thing
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- Tulips by the bathrooms
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- Look! It is Europe!
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- More pretty stuff
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- Looking down on pretty stuff...
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- Tried to get a photo of a hummingbird I saw.-- It looked like a moth at first... turns out it *is* a moth
Great pictures man. I have been wanting to ride a Segway for sometime now. That Thanksgiving point looks like it’d be relaxing to spend a day at too.
btw, amazing pics of the place- makes me want to take a trip to see it.
Wow, that doesn’t look like Utah at all… Say the word Utah and I think of snow, cold and Moab… not blue skies and acres and acres of flowers and green grass!
@Jason - Thanks, it was nice to get away from all the girls. (Don’t get me wrong.. I love my kids and all that… but when they are all under 8 and very noisy I need to get out)
@Lee - It is kinda a secret… If you look at the top of the purple flowers picture you can see regular Utah.