Vacation part 2

A great time so far. Except for the sunburn.

Fiiiiiish

The perfect recovery food after a soggy beat down. Bubba should have bought this for me for dragging his ass back to Hells Corners in the dark and rain.

Potato salad, sushi bar style. Notice the personal chopsticks, they don't hand them out just any old poser.

Special roll. Boston roll. Spicy scallop roll. Wasabi Tobiko. Big ass Sapporo.

One very happy patron. Thanks for din-din Ru-double S-e-double L.

Vacation

It seems a bit odd to me, but that's Julie smiling at 5:00 in the morning on Sunday. The alarm went off at 4:00. We had loaded the car Saturday night, but still had to load the bikes, food and kids. The smiles weren't to last very long, but more on that in a minute. We rented a cottage in Saugatuck, MI for a week. It's a cool place with it's own beach on a nice little lake about 5 minutes from lake Michigan. Saugatuck is a resort town so it has lots of restaurants and shops and stuff and it is also close to all kinds of other things to do.

This is just before we hit the road to head down to the dock to board the Lake Express.

I'll be the first to admit that this is one happenin' boat. It is a twin hull catamaran style vessel with four 3000hp diesels powering it. It cruises at a land speed of 40mph. Anyone familiar with boating knows that that's pretty fast, especially for a boat this big.

My brother and his family took it last week for short vacation in MI and they really liked it. They must have had smooth sailing.....

We did NOT have smooth sailing. Apparently, a front had come through during they night, and had kicked up some serious wave action. The boat is meant to cut through waves at a right angle no problem but the front had kicked up the waves in a NE-SW direction. Imagine 2 1/2 hours of the riding an out of control roller coaster. This thing was pitching and yawing god only knows how many feet. There were 220 some passengers on board and I'd bet that 90% of then were puking. Even people who had taken Dramamine were puking it was so bad. For our family, Maddie was the first to go and I was the last. That was the first time in probably 15 years that I have ralphed. Brutal. I had to laugh, thinking about the big group of rough and tough (looking) Harley riders waiting to get on the boat when we docked in Muskegon. The thought of them hunched over barf bags was amusing to me.

All's well that ends well however. The resort is even better that we expected. Hey, they have shuffleboard! What more can you ask for? Except a high speed wi-fi connection for free. Oh yeah, they have that too...

If you weren't there...

...then you missed it. Sunday evening/night at Alpha and Crystal. My first night ride of the season. Now I remember what I like about mountain bikes. Did some laps while it was light and while it was dark. Checked out the Ross lodge trails and did Alpha and Crystal backwards. Talk about being lost. In attendance: Rascal, The Alderman, Danny, Sti..., I mean Danielle, Harold and some new guys who mooched The Alderman's beer.

This is what people look like after you do some laps on an empty stomach and drink a bunch of beer. Even though it was only Corona near beer.

Getting ready for round two. After some big ole' sausages and potato salad, compliments of Marty. Oh yeah, and beer.

Danielle after getting busted by Ranger Rick for having fire in the park. She pleaded ignorance. and then blamed it on Alderperson Marty who's tight with the guy's boss, Sue Black. That made the parkie leave right quick. Or maybe that didn't happen.

Danny showing off his mad skeelz.

Mark your calendars

October 1, Badger Prairie

October 15, Lapham Peak

October 21, UW Whitewater

October 22, Cam Rock

October 29, Washington Park

November 5, Estabrook Park

November 11, Janesville

November 19, Sun Prairie (state championships)

Even if you don't want to race, come out and ring your cowbells, drink beer and holler at us.