AMA gave me priority status since I was blocking the middle lane downtown but I waited 2 hours before anyone showed up!

So for everyone out there, if you are on Priority, the next available truck is supposed to help you and should be withing 20 minutes. I waited 90 before I called them again.

Angela, I wish you were here so you can come with me! Why don’t you fly back to Edmonton for the concert and I’ll pay for your concert ticket? hmm?

I thought it was another reunion tour, like the Spice Girls, but I think they are getting back together because the website advertises a new album called Summertime.

One of Adam’s co-workers came out to race as well. He has an old bike and raced in his work coveralls and managed to complete one lap before DNFing.

Adam placed 4th overall in his class. Again, just missing that podium. Awesome finish though considering he lost his Camelbak half way through the race and ran the rest of it very dehydrated. Sounds like the course was very technical with lots of narrow trees and large uphills. There was even a huge log that everyone either had to get off and walk their bike under or take a chance and duck as they rode beneath it. (That’s how he lost his backpack)

There are 5 events. Let’s see… I don’t remember the exact names of each event, I’m sure Charlene will correct me but there was… Line Toss (Where you throw a weighted line up into a target crotch in the tree), Foot Lock (climbing up a 40′ rope to ring a bell), Aerial Rescue (rescue a 180lb dummy from a tree), Speed Climb (climb to the top of a tree as fast as you can), and Work Climb (5 different tasks must be completed within the tree). Charlene performed really well and I like to think it had a little to do with the entourage that she brought!

What was really funny was that she was like a celebrity on campus. A television interviewer set up their camera just to film Charlene and interview her and then promptly left. Lots of jokes about Hitting crotches etc…

She made it into the finals and won so this July she’s headed off to St. Louis for the internationals!!! Congrats Charlene!

ps. Here’s and excerpt from the Old’s College website with Charlene’s quote in it!

Willie Mac, from Texas, was quite entertaining as warm up acts go. He has this Elvis style leg shake and hip shake going on when he plays his guitar. That left leg just can’t stay still! You can’t help but watch him to see what he might do next!

DW had a varied set, an energy filled first couple of songs that lead into a long set of slower songs that I kinda recognized from the radio before stepping back up again with a medley of old rock and a Genesis song they remade. (I would let you know the titles of all these songs, but like I said, I don’t really know this Canadian band well.)

Charlene and I went straight from work almost so both of us were quite tired. But having it at the Winspear was good because I think the venue discouraged rowdy behaviour. Either that or the crowd was the tamest I’ve ever seen.  (One couple was asked to sit down after getting up do slow dance in the aisle) Willie Mac leaned down to shake people’s hands in the front row and no one got off their seat or jumped up at all. One lady leaned forward on her seat to shake his hand. That’s indicative of the rest of the audience. The only time there was a lot of standing was the last couple of songs which the band asked the audience to stand and clap along.

Sunday we drove all the way back. About 7 hours not counting Adam’s “driving” during his race.

I’ve not tried his bike myself. I don’t think he’d let me and I don’t think that’d I’d want to risk it either considering I’d probably fall over and damage his bike. I’ve been a passenger on the back and that’s enough fun for me.

Adam finished 10th overall out of 26 unofficially in the intermediate class. Pretty good.

Motorcross racing is certainly different from the hare scrambles he did last year. Motorcross races are 15 mins long on a track with a gate start while the hare scrambles were hours long through the trees on a marked trail. I think I generally enjoy the hare scrambles better but they are farther out to drive.

Next week there is a cross country race so I hope to go with Adam and see what that’s like. I’ll keep you posted.

Their reception was at the top of the Delta and was great fun. Arabic men do a raised arm snapping to the beat thing and even Shauna’s dad got into it! I loved both the ceremony and the reception.

Now they are on their honeymoon and I’m housesitting. They have  beautiful home that is very well kept. It took me about 20 minutes to find the cutting board to prepare dinner tonight. I’d eaten the leftovers from the wedding celebrations before then.