Looong weekend.

With it being Memorial Day, I had a big 2 day weekend. Plus Sat the 29th was my birthday, so we had a lot going on over the past few days.
Friday night Lindsay took me "anywhere I wanted to go" for dinner to "celebrate" my having been born 32 years earlier. We went to Sushi Bar and got a bunch of sushi rolls. I've had plenty of sushi, but never really been to a sushi restaurant. It was good. Really good. We got ice cream at Brusters afterwords, and of course it was awesome.
Saturday (may actual bday) I worked all day, but had a few surprises throughout the day (I try to keep my b-day on the DL because I'm not into the hoopla of having a big deal made out of it), but facebook blew it for me. R.Semba got me a killer blueberry tart about the time little emily showed up w/ a bag of strawberries and gave me a few to put on my tart. And she got me a New Zealand apple at my request.
Saturday night Lindsay and I got some steaks at the store and I grilled them for us. Great dinner.
Sunday my parents were coming down for the afternoon, but me and a friend had planned a ride to scout the Hoosier Man Triathlon bike course. We drove down to the lake, did 1 lap easy-ish to see/feel the course, then one lap hard to get a feel for it at race pace. It was a good hard ride and a hot day. I rode back up into town once we were done and got in over 3hrs on the bike. Nice!
My parents arrived shortly after I got back, so we did some shopping while awaiting for Lindsay to get back in town from the MTB race she was doing. We hit TJ Max because I needed some underwear and Shoe Carnival because I needed some new sandals (the ones I have I have had for probably 6-7 years) . Once we got back and got Lindsay we went to Lennies and had an awesome dinner. It was a good time.
(you all still w/ me? I feel like this is getting long)

(Lindsay at the Fairfax Beach at Lake Monroe)

Monday (Memorial Day) Lindsay and I went down to ride the MTB trails at the French Lick Resort and Casino. There's a race there in a few weeks and I figured this would be a good time to get down and ride the trails/course to be at least a little familiar w/ it. It's a really good/really cool trail system. And a really cool area. There were some spots that were super muddy, but otherwise it's a great trail w/ some good climbing and nice flowing descents.
On the way back into town Lindsay and I stopped off at the Farifax beach at Lake Monroe. I haven't been there since I was a little kid, so it was kind of cool. It' is a total white trash hangout, but still kind of cool to have a "beach" ~10minutes (by car) from our house. We hung there for a little while, then came home which put an end to our epic weekend.
So while I would normally be doing the Tuesday night TT, I stacked a couple of hard days this weekend, and I have some more hard stuff before racing (mtb) this weekend, so I skipped the TT and did an easy hour.
So let's hope I don't embarrass myself too much racing MTB this weekend. I felt like I was riding pretty good toward the end of my French Lick ride, so wish me luck!!