Sounds like a lot of our first rides. :-)
We used flat pedals for a time until we were comfortable with riding the bike. We had a pretty cool experience cool last year as we were finishing up a ride by using a bike path in Greenville SC. As we navigated the post you see at the entrance of a bike path with an intimidate sharp turn onto a narrow bridge with easy a single who was right behind us came by and said how impressed he was with our handling the tight situation. All in time, keep us posted.