Dinner at a reciprocal yacht club

Yacht club events can be few and far between during the winter months.

So it was nice to hear about an invitation to dine at a beautiful yacht club in Jamesport RI

 

 A nice crowd of about 50 BYC yacht club members attended. And our friends from down the Jamestown road joined us as well!

 Nice views of the Newport bridge

 Their yacht club was very nice - beautiful sitting room with fireplace

 Hopefully we will come back again soon

Picking up the orange coupe!

Museum display ended - so we had to go to Saratoga Springs, NY and pick up our hot rod

 

 The museum moves cars in and out all the time, so they had it down to a science

 We just had to move it out and load it into our trailer.  Too bad it wasn't a nice day (March weather has been awful), or else we could have driven it home!

 The other RB cars were moving out too

 It was fun being part of the museum display.  And plans are in the works for them to be displayed in LA next year - cool!!

NB Half Marathon!

It was a windy & cold day for a half marathon race - but we sucked it up and did it anyway.   The wind was outrageous - 25 mph steady, that didn't include the gusts.  I'm so glad we didn't have any time goals other than to finish!

 

 Which we did!  It wasn't fast - although we did run it faster than I thought - so that's always good - especially when it didn't hurt.  The wind did though - it was a steady cold headwind for the first 3 miles, and then the last 5 were brutal (along the coast, where it almost carried you away).

Now that I'm racing for fun - I think I will have to rethink some of these winter races.  Being hot & sweaty is much more enjoyable; even if it makes it tuff!

Bolts lost his fuzz!

We love Bolts fuzzy curls, so we kept him long this winter.  Here he is at his favorite place - the Vets.  He is excitedly whining for the doctor here - crazy!

 

 Of course, just as winter returned - he got his curls chopped off

 He's so cute and fuzzy, it was a hard decision - but I know he was too warm when he was in the house.

 After - bye bye cuteness

 Aww - he doesn't look too bad, but we do miss his curls.  Playing in the snow hasn't stopped him yet.

Birthday weekend!

Old man winter hasn't gone away yet, and just had to make an appearance on my birthday :(

 

 Bolts was happy -

 So, it was a quiet weekend - but I did get my birthday cake!!

 And another storm is coming - but I think we'll only get a few inches, the big stuff is hitting the west part of the state - whew!

Brrr! It's cold again!

Cold front - and it was COLD!  14 degrees on Saturday, and not much warmer on Sunday :-(  So, this past weekend was filled with relaxing with the kids (they were really into the National Geographic channel - totally enamored with the Bobcats)

 

 We did manage to get out and take Bolts for walks each morning.  My nose was frozen!!  Otherwise, we went to the gym and did our big workouts.  A pretty slow weekend - but considering the cold - it was just fine.

Weekend fun!

Another birthday party at the yacht club!

 

 Our friend Chris turned 60!

 And they also had a ping pong tournament in his honor.  Chris played - and did well

 He made it two rounds, then I told him to lose, so we could go have dinner :)

 The birthday boy, Chris, obviously played too

 And the rest of the weekend - Ironman training.  Getting into the long stuff, and it never gets any easier!  The long trainer bike ride was done while watching the Daytona 500, which helped ease the pain some!