TOP: "Posh" Ray making another world-class dish
2nd: Posh and Flash pretending they're still in love. We all know that she's just after his millions to expand her MaryKay business...what a golddigger
3rd: The mormon leading the athiest up the serpent trail. This can not go well for one of us
4th: Tom telling everyone about the old days when he had a hairline. Note the laughter on the young-uns just humoring the senile old guy.
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We made Grand Junction and called it a day a bit earlier than customary. We were staying at our friends Larry "Flash" and Peggy "Posh" Hall's house, and Posh was putting on a fabulous dinner spread for the whole crew. We did Kilimanjaro last fall with Flash and Posh; they're the fittest 60 year olds I've ever met (looking about 35 however), and they totally kicked our butts up that mountain. It was humbling. Posh has boundless energy, and Flash, well, sometimes it's hard to even tell if Flash is awake. Maybe the mormons should make a caffeine exception in his case...
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Peggy had her son and daughter-in-law over to meet us (who brings the family to meet me? usually they send them away to another state!) and they were total fun. Except it was really painful to him when Posh told him that I was really her favorite, and that she wasn't really even his mother. Sometimes private conversations should just stay that way I think :-)
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We scattered all over the house for a few hours of sleep; I was on the couch, jerry on the floor in the workout room, tom in his customary fetal position on a deck chair, and karen, well, karen just sat up and ran drug discovery simulations on her pc all night. She's wicked compulsive.
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As if dinner wasn't enough, Posh made a HUGE breakfast, and then Flash and Tom rolled out on their bikes to start off the day. They were going to put in the first 30-40 miles, and then the SUV would reel them in and launch the am team. This was the end of the line for Tom, as he had to be back home for work tomfoolery (he's actually where that word came from) and would miss the finish of the trip. Flash of course left Tom for dead on the side of the road, such that he couldn't even pedal the downhills. At his customary 15mph.
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While the pm team grabbed some more sleep and did their laundry, Posh and I went over to the Colorado National Monument and did some hiking. We did the serpents trail, a meandering few miles of uphill with a kick-ass view of the entire Grand Junction river valley. One of the park rangers tried to take me home with her, but Posh thankfully kept her away. Nothing scares me more than a 6 foot blonde with a badge. And two six-shooters if you catch my drift.
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Noonish the pm team loaded up the RV, said our goodbye's, and started chasing down the am team. Little did we know what lay ahead...
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"OK, I'll become mormon if I get fed like that everyday" Lumpy out
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