Homecoming 2025 (Part 2 of 2)

This is more of the full friends group together.  They are definitely all looking springy!

A few more of Gavin & Mads...

And more...

Here is Tara and Gavin before exchanging some last instructions for the night and sending them off!  Hopefully they have a great night of clean and safe fun!

Homecoming 2025 (Part 1 of 2)

Here are some pictures from Junior year Prom for Gavin.  He and Mads (Madeline) definitely had the coordinated colors going.

We initially met for some pictures at one of their friend's houses in Anthem for some informal pictures before they would go on later for some additional pictures in downtown Denver.

Gage was in on the action as well, watching his brother get all sorted.

 Here is Gavin with a couple of his good buddies waiting for the ladies to get all ready.

Spring Tan Lines

 

Sometimes after a long day on the bike, I can get this distinctive tan line on my back.  I think it's because the jersey has a light mesh that lets some light through, but then my bibs underneath come up through the center of the back.  Gavin and Gage thought this was pretty funny.  I would say it's a good problem to have!

Riding in Style

What a beautiful April day for a bike ride.  Here is Tara looking like some professional bike model with her matching pink and purple Zoot kit, pink socks, and white with iridescent pink bike frame with pink bottle cages.

 Definitely have the look down, babe!  Hoping we can get lots of riding in this summer together.

UK Work Trip (Part 5 of 5)

 

After staying through Wednesday day in Llangefni, I shifted the last two days of work over to Northwhich.  Thankfully, I had my trusty coworker John K. to give me a ride up to Chester, which is about 20 minutes from our Northwhich site.  Chester is one of my favorite cities in the UK, and so I checked in at the Hotel Indigo Chester.  This was a pretty swanky room right in downtown.

Here is the bathroom, which was quite nice but a bit tight.

The plan was to walk around the city a bit (though I had visited a year ago) and then meet John K. for a post dinner dessert. 

He met me in front of The Old Harkers Arm (I think) which is pictured above and turned out to be the crazy packed late-night bar and restaurant place.

I was pretty full from dinner but I couldn't pass up this waffle and caramel dessert.  Holy smokes this thing was good!  The next morning, I would take a King Kab back to the Manchester Airport and fly back to Denver through Heathrow.  Pretty awesome trip overall and lots of good time with the project team over here in Leprino Europe!

UK Work Trip (Part 4 of 5)

 

The next day, our tour guide coworker wanted to take a quick lunch trip over to this local Welsh town called Llanfairpwllgwyngyll...You can actually see the full name of the town in the picture above.  It is famous for having the longest town name in the world or something like that.  In any case, it was crazy to hear some of the Welsh language and how it is making a comeback in the area.

We jumped back to the canteen at the plant site.  Here is a typical lunch there with nice healthy portions of food that are basically like fully home cooked meals.  Everything seems to be made from scratch by the two or three chefs they have onsite.  It was very tasty!

After finishing out the afternoon (when I wasn't touring around and eating), I got back to the hotel and opted for a light pizza and salad for dinner.  Not that I could eat that whole pizza myself!

UK Work Trip (Part 3 of 5)

The next morning, I was picked up by a coworker from the area at the hotel and he drove us in.  This is the Leprino Llangefni site.  It's a fairly small plant by our US standards and was actually pieced together a bit over the years by purchasing some neighboring buildings that have been combined/consolidated into one larger plant.  We mostly worked in the main office building at some cubes and sometimes from a trailer that had a few offices in front.

After working for the day, my ride did a bit of tour guide duty and we took the long way home (to the northeast of Llangefni) towards Red Wharf Bay and Traeth Benllech beach.  You can see the water in the distance of this picture.

We parked and walked around a bit on the beach.  There were actually some people swimming in the water, but I had to believe it was fairly chilly there!  It wasn't that cold out but didn't really seem like ocean weather to me...

The main purpose of the long road home, though, was so he could help me scout a running route from the hotel.  Driving (and running I guess) can be a bit treacherous around these back country parts.  This is one of the roads we were on.  I am not quite sure what would have happened if someone would have been coming the other direction.  It seemed barely wide enough for some sort of Prius and there are no shoulders whatsoever.

 We did eventually get back to my hotel, though the detour had taken quite some time.  I had to hustle to get a long run in before it got dark.  My route was to head North up through Capel Coch to Maenaddwyn and then continue on to Mynydd Bodafon.  It was too far to get to the beach but was a beautiful route filled with field after field of green grass and sheep.  This is actually a picture of the Eglyws Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd Church & Cemetery.  The age of this place and the history you are surrounded by over here always amazes me.  I did get in a nice long run just before dark and before the restaurant closed!