Tour De France 9/25

Ok, the tour was crazy. When we went to sleep there were a couple rv's along the road with us. In the morning the whole road was ligned with cars, vans, and rv's so there was nowhere to park. There were a ton of fanatics with there country flag waving in the wind and dressed up for the event. We just sat around and talked to people from everywhere imaginable till around noon, then things started picking up.

An hour before the riders all the sponser vans came through, hundreds, tossing out random swag. Thankfully by the time the riders got to us there was a breakaway group that was 10 minutes ahead of the rest of the riders so we got to see two sets of riders go by. When they went by, even on the 4km hill we were near the top of it was just a flash. I had time for one picture and to glance at them as they flew by and then one more picture as they left for both groups. I did manage to see Lance and he looked like he was hurtin. All in all it was a good experiance for a day, but I can't imagine doing that every day for a couple seconds of people biking by.

After the tour we packed up and where on our way to Ceuse. Ceuse is known for being the best sport climbing area in the world. As soon as we pulled in Mikey gets out of the car and says hello to someone he recognized named David. Well it turns out that it was David Graham, one of the top two sport climbers in the world. Ceuse definitely looks amaizing and I'm can't wait to climb tomorrow after having two days off.

Oh and on the drive over we decided that it would be a good idea to climb at Finale Ligure in Italy when we are done at Ceuse. :-)

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