Cheryl & Chris's Wedding Blog
Saturday, July 10, 2004
So we had our wedding moment for the weekend today. Chris, Fred the wonderdog and I headed off to Harrisburg PA for a crit, enroute to a picnic in NJ. It was really cool, the crit was held around the state capitol grounds. So while I didn't get to go into the buildings (Freddie was apparently not welcome), I did get some fine Travelocity gnome style pictures of Fred in front of the capitol and in front of the state museum of PA. I did miss my opportunity to snap a shot of him with the Elvis impersonator who was entertaining the crowds. And hence our wedding moment. A couple turned up to have a wedding picture taken at the capitol, only to find their way blocked by a bike race, Elvis, and scads of scaffolding. But all was not lost, a little gesticulating and the Elvis impersonator dedicated his song to the newlyweds and as the break was caught behind them by the 1/2 field, they danced to faux-Elvis. Truly, a romantic moment. Chris wants a race at our wedding. His teammate's Mom has the phone number of the Elvis impersonator, just in case.
(Tammie, Nikki, Carrie, Amy: After 2 trips to Europe with you, viewing many fine forms of European scaffolding, I now think realize it's my fault. Everywhere I go, there's scaffolding.)
Wednesday, July 07, 2004
How to know I'm not as dedicated to my job as my co-workers are...
1. I'm blogging right now, right?
2. My co-worker was getting married yesterday afternoon. How do I know? Because I ran into her at work. She was going to leave at lunch. Maybe I should tell my boss now that I plan to be gone for around a week when I get married. Don't bother to call.
I'll apologize now for the Tour posts. Not quite what most of you came here for. But, wedding plans are slow right now. Plus, Cheryl and I met via the Tour (roughly) so it's a nice time of year. And it's the biggest event in cycling (important to both of us) and it's the most important Tour (potentially) ever. Feel free to email me with questions, since I am making a stab at being a professional explainer (announcer).
-Chris
Oh man, Chris ran across an article on this today. How much of Christine's hero would I be if we got a chocolate fountain instead of a wedding cake??
Yesterday was stage 3 of the TdF. This is the first time since the mid-1980s that the Tour has included some cobblestone sections of road. We only watched a few minutes of Postal pounding down the cobbled road, and just enough to see one of the riders tipped to be Lance's big rival, Iban Mayo, watch any potential Tour victory slip away. He crashed shortly before the pavé, and lost 4 minutes. In the world of the Tour, that's a long time to lose to riders like Armstrong, Jan Ullrich, and Tyler Hamilton. It would take a disaster now for Mayo to get on the podium. All in all it didn't look like an easy day, but at least it was interesting. Usually the first week is really boring - watch the cyclists ride for a really long time, the stage ends with a bunch sprint.
I'm sure I can get something wedding related out of this TdF mania...how about wedding vows? "In Grand Tours and in Classics, on cobbles and smooth roads, over mountains and on flats, until flat tires do you part..."
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Ahhhh, we're in a wedding lull, I think. Sort of between getting the reception hall reserved and getting thank you cards. We really want to get some thank you cards made that have a picture our friend Erin took of Fred on it. It's a happy picture, and it would certainly be personal, if not traditionally formal. Now I just have to go make it so.
The timing of our wedding-plan downtime is fabulous. The Tour de France started on Saturday, woohoo! So I'll be really focused on work. Really. I won't be reading the Tour de France updates at all. On the downside, our VCR bit the dust this weekend. Not a good year for electronics. One VCR died early on, then Fred pulled the next VCR off of the TV trying to get a ball out from among the cords. Now this one is showing tracking problems. I can't get too excited about losing this one, it's a 14 year old VCR which has survived about 6 moves. It's had a long life. But anyway, this is a short post today because I have to go take a look at today's live update. They're only 35 miles from the cobbled sector...wonder how Ullrich and Armstrong will like that!
