What a GREAT weekend! Although I have no photos to prove it.... There were a LOT of cameras at the wedding, and I decided to rely on their greater photographic skill!
Friday night we alternated freezing on a chairlift in cold drizzle with scaring ourselves silly on Mount Washington's bike park. Marc fell in love with his first ride on a true park-bike, catching lots of nice air. I cleared my first table top, baby that it was, and caught more and more air (read: baby air) off jumps and drops. Joan, Trevor, Anita, Corinna, Glen, Ken and several other devoted River Rats were there as well and after some good pub food we headed back down to do some emergency packing.
We headed over to Egmont for Andrew and Lina's wedding on Saturday morning and arrived in beautiful sunshine just as everyone was starting to stir. The early yoga group was already in the park when we arrived, and after some tent arranging and general hanging out we headed for the lake up the road. Since this was a dog friendly adventure both Matilda and Pippa came along, and Mattie managed to behave herself admirably. As for her little sister.....
The wedding ceremony was held out on a rock looking at the Skookumchuck rapids. A wonderful and personable ceremony led by Andrew's stepfather, a stunning bride, lovely bridesmaids, even Andrew cleaned up well!
The reception was back at the campground, featuring great food and Lina's sisters as entertaining MC's to organize contests for food (competing for grub at a wedding??) and music, a ceilidh by Margaret and musicians, a DJ for later on.... possibly even some alcohol was consumed while the party continued late into the night.
Sunday morning dawned lovely and sunny and we had coffee and snacks, then started the journey back home. Andrew and Lina rode their touring bikes out our way to start their honeymoon adventure. Two ferries later we met up at our house in Comox for some food and well deserved sleep, and the next morning after some last minute logistics they headed off for the first of many adventures as Mr and Mrs.
Andrew and Lina are truly a wonderful couple, and having met even more of their friends and family I can say that they are very lucky to have such a great group of people in their lives! And we are fortunate to know you all!
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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Friday, August 6, 2010
pic-less
Not a single pic from last week! Which isn't quite true because Marc took some good ones - and I'll have to post the ones of us (Rick, Joan, Marc and I) riding the back-of-the-lake rock rides. Some of them are on the Big Dog Biking Facebook site. Quite scary, all rideable and super-cool. My last ride on Sir Ullrich von Lichtenstein was last week as well ... a very fun ride instigated by Craig from Simon's cycles with some people visiting the area.
Then some bike repairs (scheduled) and bike repairs (unscheduled...) The scheduled one is the remaking of my Stumpjumper - alas Sir Ullrich, but he is being reincarnated. Geraldine is going to have half a bike while I take the other half and put it together with a Juliana frame and a shorter front shock to get a race bike. Marc has warned me I'm going to crash - ride better or die I think is the general concept. I will need help naming my new friend - so once she's together I'll get some pics and ask for some help!
The unscheduled repairs are always less fun. The Heckler had two great evenings on Mt Washington - pointy sticky-out rocks, soft floury sand, LOTS of dust, washboard and holes, some minor airtime and sneaking close to some wall rides, almost falling off the rollercoaster - all was fun except that my front shock doesn't actually work, and the rear derailler cable ripped off. When is the first Super D race anyway??? Now that I don't have a front fork anymore it might be difficult getting those downhill skills I was hoping for! Airtime did feel remarkably comfortable though :o)
No bike yesterday so I had to go for a run. Uneventful other than Matilda and Pippa chasing a bear, which was good because it was RIGHT beside me and I didn't want to have to chase it myself (too out of breath) and because when I told them to "leave him alone" they both stopped and turned back. The poor bear stood there facing uphill deciding whether he really needed to keep running in the heat and we left him to his berries.
Back to work, see you next time!
Then some bike repairs (scheduled) and bike repairs (unscheduled...) The scheduled one is the remaking of my Stumpjumper - alas Sir Ullrich, but he is being reincarnated. Geraldine is going to have half a bike while I take the other half and put it together with a Juliana frame and a shorter front shock to get a race bike. Marc has warned me I'm going to crash - ride better or die I think is the general concept. I will need help naming my new friend - so once she's together I'll get some pics and ask for some help!
The unscheduled repairs are always less fun. The Heckler had two great evenings on Mt Washington - pointy sticky-out rocks, soft floury sand, LOTS of dust, washboard and holes, some minor airtime and sneaking close to some wall rides, almost falling off the rollercoaster - all was fun except that my front shock doesn't actually work, and the rear derailler cable ripped off. When is the first Super D race anyway??? Now that I don't have a front fork anymore it might be difficult getting those downhill skills I was hoping for! Airtime did feel remarkably comfortable though :o)
No bike yesterday so I had to go for a run. Uneventful other than Matilda and Pippa chasing a bear, which was good because it was RIGHT beside me and I didn't want to have to chase it myself (too out of breath) and because when I told them to "leave him alone" they both stopped and turned back. The poor bear stood there facing uphill deciding whether he really needed to keep running in the heat and we left him to his berries.
Back to work, see you next time!
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