Who says you can't go home

Oh Maryland, I missed you (and your people!) too much to stay away for very long. Timing pieced together nicely and I was able to come back very last minute to partake is a century bike ride with my brothers! Unfortunately Jason got sick and couldn't join, but Brad and I carried the Knieriem name to the finish line. The Six Pillars Century was in Cambridge, MD. Very close to the Eastern Shore so the 100 mile bike ride was nice and flat. The wind on the other hand was not very kind to us. We biked through Blackwater Wildlife Refuge and had some nice scenery along the way. I was lagging behind and Brad met me at a rest stop and we rode the last 40+ miles together. My lovely parents (Aka personal cheerleaders!) drove down for the day and found us on the road as we were getting close to the finish.

A great photo by Dad as they rooted us on for the last 2 miles. Homestretch! 

These are our victory pics! I'm not the fastest biker so we arrived to the finish line a little late to the party. But at least there wasn't many people to be in our way while we took our finish line pic. We also got sweet orange century t-shirts to wear for the next one. 2nd century in the books! I'm thinking we deserve a century car decal now, right? 

  

              

Since I came home for the century I had to find time to squeeze in some of my favorite faces. It says a lot about the company you keep when you return to them and it's just like it always was. 

While at home, gotta root for the Caps! Playoffs!!! In one of the previous seasons I went to my first playoffs game against the Rangers and we lost. This one ended much better! And I got a sweet towel that is now hanging on our wall. Here's hoping we keep up the winning!

Luck was definitely in the air for the Caps and us. Here you have ladies and gents, my brother, the winner of the 50/50 raffle! Jason has played enough and finally his number showed up on the screen! We couldn't believe it, but after double and triple checking we knew it was actually happening. I like to think I was the lucky charm, but either way it turned out to be an awesome night. 

Airports are on my list of least favorite places- but I do enjoy how they magically ship me to/from Dallas in about 3 hours. Cheers to my fabulous parents for dropping me off. I'll be seeing them again sooner rather than later... :-)

A great trip come to a close, but now it's back to Dallas fun. Sam finishes his first year of law school tomorrow and there's lots more to come in the near future. Keep on keepin' up with me!

Love, Kendra