Devons Birthday Weekend

It is funny how just about everything our family does in some way involves bike or biking now. Now that my wife is just as addicted to the sport as I am things have changed. In the past loading up the poor minivan with all the bikes and stuff for a weekend intended for a birthday party at the wife parents would have been shunned. Now it is my wife that is suggesting trail rides with the family on days when we can fit it in.

We have family comming over Saturday night for Devons sixth birthday. Because Andrea's mom works late on Saturday we typically have the part at their house so she doesn't miss much. Location wise it is not too far to drive for my brother and parents so everything works fine.

The plan for biking looks like this. Saturday morning Hillside, Sunday morning long road endurance ride, and Monday we might take the entire family to Lebannon Hills. It has been a long time since we have road Lebannon and the beginner loop would be fun for the kids, minus Jordan - who can handle just about anything thrown her way. I have dreams of how good she is going to be, last week she finished 2nd out of 7 in the citizen class for the 10-18 age group. She can easily hold her own with kids nearly twice her size.

Well got to go, the van is packed and we need to get a quick bit to eat before we hit the road to the twin cities.

So we go our separate ways!

Because of coaxing from my wife I will be spending the weekend without her over Mother's day weekend. Jordan and I will be heading up to Maplelag Resort in Calaway, MN for the UCI spring opener. The past two years we have races at the Laddie's Loppet typically the last race in the MNSCS (now second to last) series. Jay Richards always puts on a great event despite the fact that the last two years the weather has been less than spectacular (raining and cool). I love riding the course at Maplelag. It is probably the most technically demanding course in the series and despite the fact that there are no extended climbs is physically very demanding.

Andrea is going to her parents in the Twin Cities for the weekend to visit her two sisters (and new babies). Her sisters drove in from Kansas City midweek and are staying through the weekend. I don't know the entire plan, but I did hear something about Como Park on Sunday. Andrea is planning on riding Hillside this weekend and fortunately the spare set of "feet" for the Thule rack fit the Saturn nicely. Therefore, after the race tonight I have to pull off the rack from the van and set it up on the Saturn for the weekend.

Race Weekend and Mother's Day Celebration all in One

This weekend we head off to Mankato for what looks like mayhem at the Mud Madness. Since the following weekend is Mothers Day and Jordan and I are going to be up at Maplelag, we decided to celebrate Mothers Day this weekend. We have a hotel booked in Mankato for Saturday night. Jordan has a soccer double header in Waconia starting at 8:00 AM Saturday morning and after that we will go down to Mankato to do some shopping.