Totally Crossed out

I may not be Kriss Kross, but I did ride my cross bike almost every day this past week. I put some road wheels on it and road it on the road, and I also put CX wheels on it and road it a on a couple different gravel road rides. Good stuff, and I need to get a feel for the CX bike again. I even spent some time riding on grass and doing some drills.
Friday I had the chance to ride MTB w/ a buddy/colleague who holds a Pro MTB license and has raced as an amateur in Belgium on the road, which basically makes him a former domestic road pro too. We just rode at a conversational pace for ~1.5hrs. It's been a while since I've done an easy MTB ride; it was nice.

This is a pic of Bernie Eisel getting some sort of cancer awareness band tied to his wrist. This picture rules because his eyes don't appear to focused on the ribbon being tied to his wrist. He's about one step away from being labeled the German Tommy Lee.

Sunday Lindsay and I met up w/ my parents near Lafayette and we all went up to Chicago to meet their Granddaughter, our niece and my brother's kid, Ramona. It was a long day, but a lot of fun. The baby slept most of the time; I guess that's what they do @ 4days old. We still had fun hanging out w/ everyone though. And there was an airshow going over the city and we could see some of it featuring the Blue Angels from their apt. And they live in Chinatown and I ordered a noodle/vegetable dish from a legit Chinese place and specified "hot" to the guy more than once. He listened. It was scorching, but killer.
There were some pictures taken of me w/ the baby. I'll throw them for y'all when I get them.