3 point holiday update! →[More:]

1. got up at 6AM, ate gourmet pastries & iced coffee at a sublime pastry shop.

2. rode bicycles fifty-eight miles up and down some lofty canyon climbs with my posse.

3. stopped at the batting cages at the fun park on U.S. 36 on our way back home (which was, astonishingly, open despite the holiday), drank beer, ate hot dogs, and hit a few.

note to self: it's amazingly therapeutic to stand in a batting cage in cycling socks and sweaty lycra, whalloping things with a baseball bat.

one of my teammates, a pretty, rangy woman with glasses and red hair, had us all positively weeping with laughter, as she would declare a 'victim' with every pitch:

*thwack* "THERE'S scooter libby!!"

*crack* "THERE'S george bush!!"

*smack* "THERE'S my asshole neighbour who lets his dog crap in our yard..."

... and on, and on. of course it helps she was a varsity softball player in college and had wicked accuracy, but on hindsight it probably would have been funny regardless.

can't think of a better way to have spent the holiday. how about you lot?