ALC day 5: RED DRESS DAY!

day 5 on the ALC ride is red dress day. supposedly it started as “dress in red” day and evolved into the spectacle it is today. i think some people sign up for the ride, JUST to participate in red dress day! i wish i could be there right now to see them all riding! i imagine it must be very “priscilla queen of the desert” on bikes. it’s a short ride (42 miles) today so they spend a lot of time in camp admiring each others outfits before heading out…

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mathew with a couple of sriracha bottles! (thanks to kiki, on the right, for sending this photo!)

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mathew says this group came all the way from CHINA to do the ALC ride!!! mathew looks like he’s enjoying his outfit. he said he borrowed the fishnet stockings from his tent-mate, ken.

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here’s a photo stef took of mathew during lunch. notice he’s showing off his red fingernails? 😉 i think there was a tent in camp devoted to nail polish last night.

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love this photo! stef, mathew and nancy!

i wish i could have seen all the riders on their bikes today! mathew sent me a text saying, “Yes, it was very Priscilla. There was a winding road up a hill on the way here, and the line of red cyclists looks like a red ribbon going up the hill.”

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and just in case you think ALL i’ve been doing is sitting around this week waiting on updates from mathew… i got a haircut! our downstairs tenant, jennifer took the photos. i love that i’m standing in the weird back door closet! of course my hair will not look this good again until the next time i get a haircut…

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and i finally finished my denyse schmidt inspired pillows! (left) front view, (right) back view. aren’t they cute? i finished the striped pillow at the end of 2013 and the brown square pillow today.

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here’s a photo from kiki from day 4 of mathew and stef being silly together. 🙂