Never too old, I guess.

We had our "Employee Appreciation Day" on Wednesday. Festivities included free food and drink (non-alcoholic, it was during working hours) and a 'Modified Monster Trike' Race.

I was able to sweet-talk my SPOH, as well as Ames, into coming and being cheerleaders for me. They didn't wear the cute little outfits, but they did show up! And Ames even sweet-talked another yarny friend into coming as well. It was great! But I feel kind of bad that I didn't get to spend much time chatting with any of them. SPOH was kind enough to take race photos for me, while Ames got some with her phone.

Here's a photo of me practicing last Friday. I didn't touch a trike again until Wednesday at race time.









Here's me and my team, Ghost Riders. Believe it or not, I was the oldest member of my team.







My leg of the race was from those teeny tiny orange cones in the background all the way around the corner. Trying to keep up the speed and turn were pretty interesting...





You can see my teammate urging me to get the lead out so she could ride her leg.





Gee, can you tell I was thrilled to make a complete idiot of myself? I was mainly just pleased to not wreck or fall on my face during the trade-off.





See the girls on the far left? The one in the pink is a fellow team leader. She and I have loads of friendly competition. What's funny about it is that she talked loads more smack than I did. And guess who didn't get first place *grins*.


This is one of my bosses. (I have two.) It's nice to know we can get management to make fools of themselves willingly. Kind of gives the rest of us a break.







Woohoo! Ghost Riders won 1st place for our shift with a time of 2 mins. 15 secs. We got 2nd place factory-wide.

The fastest team of the whole factory only beat us by 12 seconds. Although it is just a tad embarrassing to be beat by the I.T. people. They get to sit in the a/c all day while we're out on the floor sweating our butts off. Oh, well. We still kicked some ass!

*cue victory music*