Die Botha Blad - Nuusbrokkies vir die fynproewer: May 2006

Sara's Haircut - by Clark's Pro Stylists

Sara decided to cut a fringe on Thursday and was disappointed with the outcome so got hold of the scissors again on Friday and started chopping! And guess who had to fix up the mess? Hubby dearest!

Julian Mountain Bike Race - Sunday May 7 no.2

Getting to the start line...the beginning of the 22 mile ride - the last 3 miles is a 2000 feet climb - not for the faint hearted!

And they're off! Silver-lining is leading by a half length with Who's-your-daddy right behind and around the corner they come with another 22miles to go!!! Who will win this one today???

Here Clark is at the end of the 22miler - he finished in 16th place. Right behind him is Jacques followed by Natasa - she was the first female and 17th overall. Jacques finished in 2nd place overall, and still had enough time to come and meet up with Clark and Natasa before they finished the race. It was a great race, but also very nice to come in and finish it. They wild flowers in the fields were amazing - reminded me of Namaqualand back home in South Africa.

Almost there - the 3 of us cycle back to the finish line on the last stretch of the race which thankfully was on a tar road!

Julian Mountain Bike Race - Sunday May 7

Here we are having breakfast on the morning of the race. Trying to get some last minute carbo-loading, even though we know it is too late! Julian is at almost 5000 feet above sea level - and the previous evening was bitterly cold! Little did the mountain bikers know they were in for hottest day in the history of the race with temperatures into the high 90's - that's upper 30 degrees celcius!

Commeth the hour, commeth the wimp!!! Clark was not very fit for this race, but at least he looks a bit professional here!

Trappe van vergelyking - Goed, Beter, Beste - you decide the sequence from left to right!!! We said Clark wasn't very fit for this race - maybe his newly developed "frontale stelsel" had something to do with it!!!

Here is a photo of Clark in the main street of Julian - we camped about 1km outside of the town. There are only 6 streets in Julian - that is A street, B street and C street (they run parralel to each other), and they cross with 1st street, 2nd street, and 3rd street! Town planning is a hectic business in this town as you can imagine! Quite interesting in this part of the world is that every town has a street that is either called Washington or California - kinda like in South Africa where no matter where you are there is always a "Kerk straat" (that is "Church street")!!! So even in little ol' Julian the town folk have made space for that illustrious street name of Washington, and if you could read the street name to the left of Clark's head (mooi kyk nou!), you would see that that would be the case!

Back to the breakfast after the night of bitter cold and hardly any sleep - look at Clark - talk about not being a happy camper!!! :)

Julian Weekend

We spent the previous weekend in a little mountain town called Julian. Clark and our friends Jacques and Natasa took part in a mountain bike race on Sunday. It was great to get out of the city and breathe some fresh air! The trip to Julian and the town itself as well as its surroundings are really lovely. Everything is so green and there are trees all over the place and all the wild flowers are blossoming for Spring:)