You should have seen the other guy....

On Saturday I safely crashed my bike into a stupid lady driving a Mercedes. Safely crashed is a bit of an oxymoron, but I managed to come away unscathed, however bent my bike's frame. The killer is that it was totally her fault and I let her go before grabbing any details as I was simply relived to be in tact and not bleeding. It was a little more shaking that a car on car fender bender, even though ultimately the damage was the same. So no details exchanged and me sitting on the side of the road catching my breath, restoring my heart rate to normal. Now I have to go in to a police station and see if they might have CCTV of the incident.

All that made me very late for our friends Mark and Amy's going away BBQ which was at our house. I hobbled home on my barely working bike and came in with black greasy hands from putting my chain back on and looking rather haggard. I was really bummed for the evening and even more sad that Mark and Amy were leaving in a week! On top of that, my back was all messed up from moving loads of stock after we had a big wine sale last weekend and ordered about 2-3 times our normal stock holdings. Still have a little tweak which is slowly getting better.

Other fun news: Natalie Flath, one of Jamie's small group girls from UPPC and a friend from SPU stayed with us for a couple nights to see London as they were on their way to work at a camp in Grenoble, France for July. Great to see them and always fun to see old youth group kids all grown up!

Lastly, we just heard that Aidan is going to get in to St John's for recpetion. I'll do a whole blog on school admittance here in the UK and the insanity it involves. The US school system is not as bad as you think it is...trust me.

Cheers!

P.S. On Sat at the BBQ (when I started this post) had a Los Altos Hormigas Malbec from Argentina, like '06, '07. Awesome wine with a great deep flavor, some spicer and firm tannic stucture. Then on Monday (as I finished this post) had a Ridge Lytton Springs (Zin blend) 2006 previously in the evening with Jamie on our date night (thanks to Nat for watching the sleeping babes.).