SLC Century

Saturday was the SLC Century and I finished all 107 miles. I road it with my two sister-in-laws Emily and Karen. I am so proud of Emily, she just started riding and she finished the whole thing. She was amazing. We laughed, chatted, we were silent, we shed tears, and we had fun!

When Emily emailed me this picture the title was Mile 67 and still smiling. Andy and the kids were so great to bring us snacks, drinks and lunch. It was good motivation seeing them and getting off the bike for a few minutes.

The century starts at the fair grounds in SLC and heads north, around antelope island and back. When we got out on the causeway the bugs and smell were so bad. I have never experienced anything like it before. We all were having such a hard time biking through it.

I feel really good after the bike ride. By butt is sore and my left knee was bothering me a little, but overall my muscles feel good. I woke up Sunday morning at five in the morning starving... Literally felt sick I was so hungry. So I ate and drank two glasses of chocolate milk and went back to bed.... at nine I woke up again starving. I had cereal, waffles, and three more glasses of chocolate milk. Then I headed back to bed to lay down. I was awake but still tired. I woke up an hour later (yes I fell back to sleep) and was again hungry, so more chocolate milk. So why the reason for the starvation.. Probably had something to do with burning 4,671 calories on the ride. (After I finally recovered and hydrated I realized I drank almost an entire half gallon of chocolate milk)

Good ride, good times and getting a lot of miles on the saddle for the ride to St. George in June.

Mothers Day Fun

For Mothers Day all my Mom wanted to do was go out to Promontory Point and the Spiral Jetty. So my Dad packed up an lunch and the three of us headed out there. Having lived in Utah my whole life I have never been out there so I had no idea what to expect. As we pulled up to the visitor center we were surprised at how many people were out there. Little did we know that it was the 140th Anniversary of the actual trains meeting at Promontory Point. What are the chances the day we picked. That is right May 10th the Jupiter and the No 119 train met at Promontory Point. So to celebrate they had free admission and a reenactment ceremony. It was pretty funny. Anyway the trains were awesome and it was fun to see them actually move.

We went out and saw the Spiral Jetty. I had heard about it, but to be honest had no clue what it was. It was pretty awesome to be out there. I had never really been out to the Great Salt Lake so that was a new experience as well. There is so much salt it is truly amazing. Everything was just covered in what looked like snow... nope just salt.

My dad found this dead bird. It was only bone and feathers, but due to the salt it was solid as a rock. So we snapped a few pictures.

This lady bug was just hanging out on an old pier out on the lake.

This butterfly and moth were preserved in the water. It was pretty awesome.

Anyway if you are ever looking for something fun to do in Utah go spend the afternoon seeing these two places.

Tired, Happy, Sore and Richer

Saturday was biking day. Tony, Karen, My dad, Craig, Amber and I headed out for a nice long ride. I think as torture they picked the route we went on solely for me. I am not a very good climber when it comes to biking so whenever I ride with my dad he is always pushing me to climb. So Saturday was no different. They decided to do Emigration Canyon. The whole bike ride was 50 miles including Emigration Canyon. So by the time we got done I was exhausted. The worst part about it all was that my thighs were burning. They were like jello. I felt like this.....

After the ride I raced down for my work Summer Kickoff Party. I was pretty out of it from the ride, but I did get to get in the CASH CAGE. It was a lot harder catching the money then it seemed, but who can complain about free money.

Long Time...

So I haven't posted in forever... Life, work and everything else has been crazy busy, plus just lack of actually sitting down and taking the time to write a post. Needless to say I am going to try and do better. So I am sure the next few posts will be catching up. So I went on a cruise (not to Mexico), but to Catalina. It was a lot of fun and I will post about it later.

Last night my Nephew was in the Freedom Festival concert at the Marriott Center at BYU. Prior to the show we took Kennedy to the park and I lost my camera... Bummer about the whole thing is that it had all my cruise pictures on it that I hadn't save to my laptop yet. So I am sad.
Anyway the Concert was so cute and I was so glad I went. All the kids wore color shirt that made up the flag. It was really impressive.




Lately Millie has had allergies and it has made her really tired. She sleeps all the time (Poor Pup). Anyway the other day in the car she was so tired...

One night while the roomies and I headed out for dinner we were driving to eat and I turned around to see Chels like this... Cracked me up. She was just chillin in the back with a cat woman mask.