Tyler and I spent our two week vacation traveling to my home town Homer (but really Anchor Point) and then visiting Bellingham for the second week.
In my homeland, Tyler got the full Sara Thompson experience: hanging out in Anchor Point with the family, clam digging, town laps, the fermentation tour, adult softball and meeting all of my goofy, wonderful friends that I haven't seen in years. I don't think I scared him off because he said he wants to spend a summer up there sometime. Here are some pictures from the Alaska part of the trip.
After a week we were off to Bellingham. We participated in the 100th Ski to Sea relay, but our team Tippy Canoe and Tyler 2 disqualified for the second time in three years. (Eric told the story of our first DQ in last years blog post, and then I posted our results with our only finish on record.)
Here's the short version of what happened:
We DQ'd BUT the canoe leg still finished first in our division and 31st out of 500 teams overall.
Now the longer(ish) version:
It was my fault AGAIN (my new nickname is DQ Hansen, and the proposed team name next year is DQ'd Canoe and Tyler 2). We were wearing the wrong life jackets and were pulled from the race after the third river bend. The race Web site still says that we finished the canoe leg in record time. I am taking this opportunity to announce my retirement, and I will not be participating in the canoe leg in the future.
Other than the race mishap, we had a great time visiting with all of our friends. The weather cooperated with us, and we went for a nice sail on Steve's birthday. All in all it was a great trip in Bellingham.
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