No video this week

The kids spent the weekend playing with friends and sleeping over at their Grandma's and Grandpa's house. Karen and I had the house to ourselves last night, so we went out to dinner and got to watch Cal beat UCLA (Go Bears!), and then came home and watched a DVD.

Today my neighbor Ray and I went on a 3+ hour mountain bike ride. Ray is a very skilled and powerful rider, and, as usual he kicked my butt. He let me borrow one of his moutain bikes (way, way better than mine) and it was the first time I used clip-in shoes on a mountain bike. It was a somewhat technical ride in places and I have to admit I had 6 minor crashes. Nothing serious other than hurt pride. I fell over way too often when I got to a spot where I needed to put a foot down. I have to practice getting my foot unsnapped from the pedal a lot faster. I've never had to be that fast on my road bike.

The ride was a lot of fun, nevertheless. We rode from our house up to a spot near the top of Tumalo Falls. About 10 miles one way with a 1500 foot climb all on single-track trails. It was lightly raining when we left and snowing hard by the time we got to the top. It was really cold coming down, until we dropped down about 500 feet where the rain and snow stopped.

Ski season is coming!