Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Weekend fun...

After work on Friday Eddie and I headed up to SLC for the Tour of Utah. Some bike race for those of you that don't even know what the Tour de France is. Eddie's dad opened up a bike shop a few years ago...no not a Harley bike shop...a road bike shop, to clarify....anyways, ever since then Eddie has had a lot of interest in road bikes. Eddie was so excited to go to this. We even spent the night at Gma and Gpa's...in case it went late into the night.

We arrived, oh like an hour and half before the race even started. It started at 7:00pm. I got to see lots of bike riders get dressed, that was fun...since we were so early.

Eddie was like a kid in a candy store when he saw Rock Racing pull up. We even walked 3 blocks to find where they parked and hung out waiting for the rider to come out.

They even had their own security for the owner, Michael Ball designer of Rock and Republic Jeans. See the guy in the suit...

They had a whole caravan. One bus, some truck looking thing, two SUV's and car.

The guy, Tyler Hamilton, walking in to the bus was by far the most famous out of the riders. Eddie looked like paparazzi to get this photo. There were a ton of people trying to get his picture.

The race consisted of a bunch of riders riding around a two by two block radius for 60 minutes. Around and around and around.....no one fell.

Eddie was having so much fun!


I thought this was a cool shot. They rode past probably going at least 50 mph.

This video cracks me up. This is exactly why I don't enjoy sporting events all that much and sometimes get embarrassed. The screaming is not a girl...it is my Eddie. This was at the end of the race. We moved spots like 5 times to get a better view.



Then after the race we headed to Gma and Gpa's. We had the worst night sleep of our lives. The bed we slept on is probably at least 50 years old. We both woke up numerous times and with back aches in the morning. After breakfast Gma and I headed to the movies.

It was cute.

Then Sunday night we were invited by our neighbors to their kids b-day party. That was an interesting experience. We were 2 of like 6 people that only spoke English, out of like 50 people. All other conversations were in Spanish. They sang this cool song for the pinata for each kids turn, in Spanish. Then they sang Happy Birthday, in Spanish. Fun times!! Had some yummy Mexican food though. Overall, we had a great time this weekend.

3 comments:

Darm Family said...

That is hilarious! Eddie sounds like such a girl! We love you Eddie! It looks like you guys had a lot of fun. Except for when you slept at Gma's.

terrah said...

How fun! It's always more fun to watch events with people who get really excited :). We haven't seen you guys forever-- we hope to see you soon!

Unknown said...

Does Earl still own the bike shop?