Christmas in MPLS

January 1, 2012

Wake up, breakfast, ride to work, work, take the long route home through Lone Lake and hit the single-track, family dinner, watch history documentaries on apple TV, then fall asleep at ten pm. That is my daily routine in a nutshell. Santa was good to me this year; the Christmas highlight, however, was surely my mom being able to ride her new bike on Christmas morning. Seeing her ecstatic to be riding a quick handling and lightweight Trek 7.5 FX WSD set the tone for a great Christmas. Another highlight was my Great Grandfather’s pancakes. My Great Grandfather, a lawyer in the 60′s, offered his legal services free of charge to a highly toted chef who was in financial despair. In return, the chef shared his pancake recipe, which has become a Christmas tradition for my mom’s family ever since.

I had not seen my buddy Lars since last winter. He was in town from Bend so I picked him up at the airport. He stayed with my family for a couple nights. He took me skiing at Elm Creek where I reunited with Eric and SamO and saw the Hopkins Nordic Team at one of their conference races. Sarah Benton and Harris Dirnberger both juniors at Hopkins handily won their respective races. Coach Fuhr, Ari, Megan, Kos, and Zach are still the best out there for high school coaches and in the next two years I would not be surprised if both the girls and boys teams are on the podium at the State Meet.

Last but not least, the other best part of my christmas was seeing Peter Johnson on his new TTR90! There is a video below!