September

 September was full of Swiss Days, bike races, and a trip to Washington.  Swiss Days was crazy as usual.  But at least this year we didn't have to make tacos in 100 degree temperatures.  Thank heavens.  My friend Audrey and I got matching shirts because we figured out we've been doing Swiss Days together for 10 years now.  Most people come and spend all day wandering around, buying tons.  We walk over Friday morning, quickly walk by all the booths, and are enjoying a scone by 10:30.  Thus our shirts say, '10 years of let's skip this row.  Swiss Days our way.  It's a pretty awesome tradition I think.

We had our second race at Eagle Mountain.  Sage had a great race and managed to move up a couple of spots again.  The crazy wind held off until after she finished, thank heavens.  

The fall leaves were amazing, as usual this year.  Definitely my favorite time to mountain bike.  I even decided to be social and rode the Wow trail with a bunch of other ladies.  

Jake had a builder group in Anacortes, Washington that we were excited to go to.  Of course, it happened to be the same weekend Sage had a race in Vernal.  It killed me to miss her race, but we've been looking forward to going to this location for a long time.  Some good mountain bike friends were super nice to take her and make sure she was ready for the race.  They even fixed the flat she had the day before the race (of course that happened when we were gone).  Sage killed it and finally met her goal of finishing in the top 10!  I was a worried mess until I knew she made it across the finish line.

Jake and I really enjoyed Anacortes.  Such a beautiful spot.  I really enjoyed exploring while Jake was in his meetings.  Then we did a bunch of fun mountain bike trails.  Mountain biking is pretty big there too.  It was fun to ride on new trails and try out a different bike.  Our last night there we decided to go on a little hike later in the afternoon.  On the way there the low tire light came on in the rental car.  I figured it was probably fine, but when I got out of the car I could hear air leaking out of the tire.  So Jake got to change a tire in a parking lot.  Luckily he's really good at that and we were good to go in like 10 minutes.  But definitely not ideal.  We've not had good luck with tires this year.  The rain mostly held off until the day we left, when it was dumping rain and freezing cold.  Thank heavens we had some good weather days first.