End-of-the-line

Three tickets please! And so we departed from our local train station. Jamie’d been a little wound up for the day, and I suspect perhaps a bug caught him out too, but the time spent on Simonstown’ Long Beach was great fun. I particularly like this beach for the awesome backdrops – the navy, the mountains…

Anyway, a great big thanks to everyone who attended and made the effort to join Jamie. Fortunately the weather was good (unlike the freakin’ gale that arrived the next day for cyclists). He really appreciates the various toys, games, puzzles etc.

My (Jamie inspired) Smartie-exploding-from-within cake was quite a hit – especially since it’d avoided melting in the run-up. The trip home was accompanied by a little carriage-touring busk group who were quick to lead our gathering in an upbeat “Happy Birthday” complete with Banjos etc.

Jan did amazing things getting the whole party organised etc, so 10 points there. As for Jamie, well… biases aside, he’s an awesome little guy. Hard to believe things have gone so quickly. Anyway… this evening seems to have gone that quickly too… long past my bedtime. Thanks for visiting!

Generalschmenral

Significantly, Jamie’s birthday and party has come and gone, so before I write that up, I may as well casually mention that the 2009 Cape of Storms was quite fun. Everything that has been said was true, but nevertheless I’ll certainly do it again.

The novelty of riding so many inaccessable/closed routes was awesome, and is still sort of front-of-mind as I commute to and from Town everyday. My finish time was just under 5 hours, which was fine considering. A mapping table I recently saw suggests that my 2009 time would actually map to just under 4hr. Whatever… I’d rather do it for real next year.

The rest of the family are still alive and kicking, usually sometime around 3am. Jan and I are still seriously crushed with sleep-dept, and our various work situations have been extremely exhausting of late as we’ve both been grappling with unreasonable (- understated) clients demonstrating psychotic and/or narcisisstic illnesses… sorry for us!

But the kids avoid the stress fortunately… largly…
More on Jamie’s birthday to follow…

Uncomfortably numb (bum)

It’s getting busy! Jamie turns 3 this weekend, and we’re having a little (as if…) do to celebrate. We’re counting on the weather since it’s beach-oriented, and don’t quite have a plan if the weather guys are getting it wrong. Currently we’re in for low-thirties – perfect indeed. He’s been fantasing about a cake which shall, from it’s insides, burst forth with many, many Smarties, and so I had a rather timeous epiphany earlier this evening: dispense with the complexity of building some Disney-inspired cake, and just create a cake with a gaping Smartiefest-sized hole inside. An hour or so from the beach, I’ll simply bend my rubber-arm and grant him his wish… I’ll empty a kilogram bag of chocolate goodies into the hole. I’m sure that will help for my race energy?

On that point, thirties are pretty un-perfect for the Cape Argus which is taking place on Sunday. Forecasts I’ve seen have only dared as far as Saturday, but I’d imagine we’ll get a glimpse tomorrow. My money is on high-twenties and strong winds. Mmmm… my favourite! Not even sure how I’m going to escape our neighbourhood as it is usually completely restricted during the race. This being my first foray into this cult event, I’m hoping my ass survives the saddle-time – I’m aiming for low 4hrs.

Otherwise, my gran just moved house, so I’ve bought/inherited a fair whack of new furniture which our house cannot accomodate. So we’re sort of more full than we already were. We’re also not sleeping at the moment since Erin seems to have a cold. But I am blogging. There’s that silver-lining!