A sports day.....

 7:16 am - Friday - July 18th - LPG&RVR - 62° F, humidity 27%, wind 1 mph out of the southeast.....clear, blue skies today with a forecast high of 91° F.  On this date in 2018 TLE and I were having lunch at the Asticou Inn in Northwest Harbor, Maine....not far from Bar Harbor....

.....one of our favorite dining spots while we were working in Southwest Harbor, Maine that summer.

Thursday, the second day of our four day weekend, was Round 1 of the 153rd edition of 'The Open' being held at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland this year.  Television coverage began around 1 am Pacific DST, so we were, obviously, not up at that early hour, but we did begin watching around 7 am.  We continued watching until after 11 am when we decided we needed to make a run into town to do our weekly shopping, and if we're going that far we might as well continue on to Canby to visit Coffee Adventure where they also sell pasture raised chicken eggs (they are washed, however), and freshly baked bread.  

Since it was noon time when we arrived at Coffee Adventure we decided to get a couple of their sandwiches (beef and Swiss for moi, and bacon, egg & Swiss cheese cheese bagel for TLE).  Both were heated up in a Panini Press....yum.  I had a Mocha Frappuccino to chase my sandwich, and TLE iced coffee.  The entire one way drive to Canby from LPG&RVR is about 38 miles, but it is well worth the drive.  We lingered there dining alfresco for about an hour before heading back to Alturas where we stopped at Holiday Market, and Dollar General  to complete the rest of our shopping before finishing our return drive to LPG&RVR around 2 pm.

Since we were recording 'The Open' we were able to pick up where we left off when we got home, and finish watching Round 1 before beginning to watch the replay of the 12th Stage of Le Tour.  This was a 180 kilometer stage with  several long climbs in the Pyrenees, the final climb being around 8 miles with a hilltop finish.  Beginning Stage 12 Tadej Pogacar was around 27 seconds behind the Yellow Jersey.  He (Tadej) was coming off a high speed crash in Stage 11, and everyone wondered how he would fare in Stage 12, but those doubts were completely obliterated when Tadej  attacked (broke away) at the beginning of the final climb, which was completely unexpected.  No one attacks at the beginning of an 8 mile climb.  The Yellow Jersey wearer ended up over 10 minutes behind Tadej, and his closest rival, Jonas Vinegaard, was now 3 minutes and 31 seconds behind, losing over 2 minutes on that final climb.

Thursday was a great sports day, and we did not finish watching the replay of Stage 12 of Le Tour until almost 7 pm. Aren't DVRs amazing?

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