RAGBRAI

3 days. 1 tent.  About 170 miles. 95 degree weather.  And a Trek bike. This is Matt's idea of heaven.  Pretty sure my idea of heaven is much different.

Matt and our brother-in-law, Scott, participated in an event called RAGBRAI at the end of July.  It's a week-long bike ride across Iowa.  It starts on the West border and ends on the East border.  They rode with a group of guys for the last 3 days of the event.  From what I hear, this is really fun because at every town they ride thru or stop at, there are all sorts of activities and things going on.  Basically, it's a moving party. 

So, they started in Charles City and ended in Dubuque.  The first day they rode about 70 miles, the second day they rode about 55 miles, and the final day they rode about 45 miles.  Makes me dizy just talking about it.  I know they had a great time riding, camping and hanging out.  And from what I hear, this is going to be an annual thing. 

I've very proud of these boys and hope that I can make the trip up some year to help cheer them on.

On a side note - I'm not quite sure what has possessed both of us to sign up for these crazy events.  Maybe it's the fact that we both see babies looming in our near future and feel this is our last chance at personal victory before the stress of children takes over our bodies...maybe.  Or maybe we really want to test our bodies to their at most breaking point just to see if they can handle it...maybe.  However, the maybe I'm voting for is that we're just plain stupid and crazy.  Yep, I'm sure of it.  We've done gone and lost our damn minds.

Regardless, both our events have passed and life is beginning to return back to a bit of normalcy. Knowing us though, it won't take long before we sign ourselves up for something else.

PS - I'd been waiting to post this because I was hoping for some pictures, but I realized that day may never come. Maybe one day in the future I can share those with everyone.