Our Christmas tree arrived by forklift. “Santa Blake”.
Mr. and Mrs. Renstrom , getting ready to celebrate FOURTY YEARS TOGETHER !
Congratulations, kids!
The bounce house was sooo tempting!
This rider may be little, but is darn serious. Look at the GoPro on the helmet!
Tim, I think you have outgrown this bike….
Nice seeing the Barrys and the Marks…
and the Blakes
Sneak preview of an exciting bunch of young riders (remember, you have seen it here first!) :
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The egg race was a lot of fun
I willingly participated, but in the spirit of sportsmanship I tried to handicap myself by gulping a couple of diet cokes before the test. I thought the caffeine would make me jittery and unstable, and therefore less likely to obliterate my competitors but noooo siree! It did not work. I still won in the”women-slow” class (was there any doubt? come on, seriously) and “women-egg”.
The latter one especially I am going to brag about at the office tomorrow morning.
Then we moved inside to polish off the good food
practice mutual stealing of Christmas gifts
and watch photos of this year’s events (our guys looked very studly)
Jim gave this year’s awards:
Outstanding Racer of the year to Branson Blake ( we had some photos of him showing off and he looked duly outstanding… more like… defying gravity!)
the Golden Machete Perennial Trophy to Barry Miller for super-human trail making efforts
the Golden Stapler Award to Keith Leach for his excellent work as Lease Director
the Golden Compass to Alex Abadi for his superior navigating skills in finding his way back to the parking lot at the Lease
the Golden Goat Award to Mark Clay for his awesome hill-climbing performances at Durhamtown.
As usual, Jim was surrounded by young, attractive ladies…
Like this one showing off her gifts (what a heartrob!)
It was a fun party!
Thanks to all who helped put it together:
Rhonda Blake and the Blake family
Tim Miller
Jim and Jen Harker
Clint Lancaster
Alex Abadi and his ladies who wrapped four gazillion gifts for all the participants
And special thanks to Don Learn for his projector[glow=red,2,300]
And to Jeff Lewis of Nassau Powersports who graciously made this facility available for our frolics.[/glow]
Thank you all! Have safe and happy holidays!
See you soon!!