Sophie's first meal.

She had rice cereal and she really seemed to like it.
Wouldn't you know it? After "dinner", she slept through the night!

Holy Floyd!

Well that has to be one of the greatest Tour's ever... Floyd is the man!

I didn't do very well on my predictions:

Top Ten: (In no order) Levi Lephimer, George Hincapie, Floyd Landis, Cadel Evans, Michael Rogers, Andereas Kloden, David Moncoutie, Alejando Valverde, Sandy Casar, Christophe Moreau
5 out of 10 in the top ten.

1st: Levi Lephimer (Gerolsteiner)
2nd: Michael Rogers (Telekom)
3rd: George Hincapie (Discovery)
0 out 3 for top three.

Polka Dot Jersey: Jose Rujano (Quick Step)
Nope, I don't even think he finished. Apparently his big toe was bothering him.

Green Jersey: Robbie McEwen (Davitamon-Lotto)
I got this one right.

All in all pretty pitiful prognostication.

UPDATES:

I haven't updated in a while. So, here we go:

Fourth of July we headed down to NC to visit family down there:
- Kids traveled very well on the way down. We were worried, but they did great!
- Stayed with my cousin in Raleigh. (Thanks April!)
- Took Jacob to see Cars the movie. I thought it was really good. Jacob seemed to enjoy it as well. We had to tell him to be quiet a few times. Anytime a new character was on screen he would yell the name. It was very cute.
- The movie theater was in a "New urbanism" style mall, very cool.
- Went and saw Doug, Becky and kids for a little bit. (Doug's restaurant is in the "above" mall.
- Had a bbq on the fourth. Wayne and his family came out for the bbq. Seems like Wayne and family are adjusting well to life in North Carolina.
- Jacob and Addicus had their first taste of bubble gum (not approved by the parents)
- Aunt Ruthie and Uncle John brought up some pork bbq (yummy, actually took the leftovers home!) They also brought blackberries from their farm... I forgot to have any...oops!
- Kids traveled well on the way home, maybe we'll start to travel a little bit more?
- All in all we had a great visit! (Thanks again April!)

I've been training. I started my training program I used 4 years ago. Watch out! I think I figured out how I can get the riding in. I've been getting up at 5:00 am to ride everyday. Which is a big deal for me, I love my sleep. I haven't been drinking beer after work either. OK, so I've only done 3 days of training in the am. I started with the "easy" week and it is putting me into some difficulty. I don't know if I'm going to be able to do the "hard" weeks...

The other night I was watching the Tour, fixing my rear wheel, it needed some TLC, and Kristen says, "You're doing that without drinking a beer?!?" Apparently, I usually work on my bike and watch the Tour while drinking a beer...

Mom called at lunch yesterday to tell me she has found her new house for our farm (Its been a pipe dream of mine to buy a farm and let my parents build a house on it). Anyway, her new house is pretty cool. Brent would love it, the floors are concrete!

I think that is about it for now. I've been meaning to do this blog update all week, but my lunches have been consumed by this:

Le Tour Predictions

OVERALL:

Top Ten: (In no order) Levi Lephimer, George Hincapie, Floyd Landis, Cadel Evans, Michael Rogers, Andereas Kloden, David Moncoutie, Alejando Valverde, Sandy Casar, Christophe Moreau

1st: Levi Lephimer (Gerolsteiner)
2nd: Michael Rogers (Telekom)
3rd: George Hincapie (Discovery)

Polka Dot Jersey: Jose Rujano (Quick Step)
Green Jersey: Robbie McEwen (Davitamon-Lotto)

I had to get my picks in before the tour started. So, there they are. I think it is going to be a great Tour, if nobody else gets kicked out....