...and bicycles!

 
This week-end was bike-time for me, who, as in the past few months, partook in Critical Mass Friday evening.

      I rode around Brookline/Cambridge Saturday (And got my bike all tuned up - 99.9% by my colleague Art), then was one of 4000-5000 bikers to participate in Hub on Wheels Sunday.

    Some colleagues and I rode the 30 mile route (In about 2:30 hours...). Ready for RAGBRAI (Shout out to IA!!!).

Iowa: the 3 Fs

We went to Iowa the past week and had an absolutely wonderful time with friends, family and fair. My brother Kevin took us skydiving (YouTube clips can be seen here for Matthieu and here for Jackie). It was amazing! We got to go bowling, swimming, golfing. Of course the cultural highlight was experiencing the Iowa State Fair. I had not been in almost 6 years and this was Matthieu's first time. I was most entertained by watching my little brother eat his savings.  That to the left is a fried Snickers bar!

Matthieu enjoyed eating his first REAL corn dog. We saw the Butter Cow, the prizewinning giant Bull and Pig, watched the talent sprouts, went to the Kelly Clarkson concert (which was surprisingly amazing-we expected good), saw a demolition derby with a man named ROCKY HARDCORE who set himself on fire, 

rode the sky ride, and decided what cooking contests

we were going to enter next year.  

Jameo was crazy for Sebastian the family cat- or as he called him "Meow".

The amazing Sue and Pascal threw a classy and fun wedding at the Commandant's House in the Charlestown Navy Yard. Congratulations PK and Sue! We wish you many years of making witty commentary to one another.