Tour de "Oh my God, my back hurts!"

[maillotpois]

Oh I am definitely in for part - it's just WHAT part and how long that's up in the air.

[maillotpois]

Okay, now I have had to move Em's birthday party to the night of the 5th because of her zoo training being set the morning she WAS going to have her party. Oy! So I have to do some serious juggling and/or bribing here to go do that. I need to at least get the waffles going before I go, so I will probably be meeting you en route higher up the line.

On a good note, I think I'll be able to physically do the ride. The shoulder was worlds better this weekend than last (at more than double the mileage.) I'm just (1) fat and (2) slow (well, ok, only actually slow on the long climbs, and there aren't any on this route).

[Veronica]

You just want to go to to the bakeries!

You do know Bovine Bakery is one of the controls right?

Although, I'll be going to the grocery store across the street.

V.

[maillotpois]

You nailed it.

what I REALLY love about Bovine is the soup. (I'll get your card stamped when I buy my soup.)

(My 300k last year had a potential for FOUR bakery stops (2 at Tomales and 2 at Bovine). I did go to bovine for one of them, and of course got the soup...

[snapdragen]

/thread hijack

mp - what's Em going to do at the zoo? Which zoo?

[maillotpois]

SF Zoo; tiger bait.



She was accepted into this pre-internship program ("Nature trail") where kids work with animals (small at first, like geckos, snakes, etc.) and talk to the public about them. It's basically a full time job, 2 days week during the summer. They work up to working with raptors and larger animals and doing more conservation advocacy type stuff - once they're in the program, they're in for as long as they continue to perform adequately (in other words, as long as their family continues to drive them to work). It's a pretty amazing program.

She wants to be a vet and all she watches is Animal Planet. I'm really proud she got in (she had to do a written application and interview and in pre-tiger years it was a very competitive program), but honestly, I can't imagine a kid better suited for this. She loves animals and she loves to talk.

I'm very proud of her.

(thanks for asking!)

[Blueberry]

MP -

Very cool! That's a neat program - what fun!! (and what a great way to learn the "ways of the world").

CA