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I smell like gasoline, PB Blaster, and Fast Orange right now. Good times.

Links

Here are a couple of websites I found that tell about Ketchum/ Sun Valley. They are really one in the same. This is where Brian works. It is 11 miles north of Hailey.
http://www.viamagazine.com/top_stories/articles/sunvalley.asp
http://www.forbes.com/2000/12/12/ppsunvalley.html

Happy 4th of July!

Hope everyone back had a great 4th! We pretty much relaxed most of the day. We did a little tidying up of the house in the morning, then went to the parade and 4th of July Criterium. They closed off Main St for the afternoon for the parade and race. Pretty cool.


A group off the front of the 3-4-5 race


Holly's boss Cameron in the Women's race. She would go on to take 3rd.


Another photo of the women's race. It was a beautiful day!


Here's a local in the Pro-1-2 race. He held off the field by himself for about 35 minutes of the 50 minute race.


Here's the kid who won. I think I heard them say he's 17 years old.


Then we went to the pool and cooled off for a bit. We came home and grilled out, then walked over to the field near our house and waited for the fireworks. Peyton and Brian and I tossed a frisbee for a while,


Holly read a book,


and then we watched the fireworks.


All in all a great day (aside from a little sunburn).


By the way, we do enjoy hearing from everyone back home, so if you feel like sending an email or leaving comments to let us know what you're up to, we'd love to hear from you (yes, you.)

~Eric

Last Night

Last night we went to the Hailey Rodeo. I was extremely excited, because the rodeo is a 4th tradition for me and because horses were a huge part of my childhood. I feel like the rodeo brings me closer to home. The rodeo was a little on the disappointing side. Biking is the culture out here, not rodeos (which I guess is more the culture in Lake City, Iowa). If that makes any sense at all :). After the rodeo Eric and I decided to take a drive to an area north a Ketchum to see the stars. We almost got into a head on with a drunk driver. It was a little scary afterward thinking of what might have happened if we hadn't have swerved. Basically a car veered into our lane on highway 75 south of Ketchum the car in front of us swerved and then we swerved and honked. The car looked like it had already been a smaller accident because the hood had a big dent in it. We called the fuzz and gave them information about the description and direction of the car. CRAZY. Lesson: DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE!

Holly