First Johanna and I did a local Mountain bike race...The O-hill Meltdown for some pain and suffering. I think it's one of the toughest local races that we have around here. The laps are only 5-6 miles but each lap has over 1000 ft of climbing with most of it coming in the first half of the race. There's not much recovery because the descents are really sketchy and not very long. Anyway, I think I came in 9th out of a bunch of guys and Johanna came in first in her two-person, expert woman field.
After the race Johanna and I drove two hours to Williamsburg to see The Roots in concert at William and Mary. We were only 10 minutes away from Colonial Williamsburg so we decided to stay the night and take in some history.
I don't have any pics from the Roots concert because you aren't supposed to take any recording devices in to the venue, blah blah blah. Security was minimal at best, so I could have brought in the Digi-cam and snapped some shots. I am sure there were about 1000 camera phones in the place so it wouldn't have been a big deal.
The Roots were off the hizzle! No surprise there. They played a TON of music and gave a great show. I think Black Thought was rhyming for at least an hour before he took any kind of break. Then things got mellow with Stay Cool, You Got Me and some more of their laid-back tracks. Black Thought always keeps you guessing because the songs never sound the same as they do on the albums. He is always getting creative with the rythms or having fun with the lyrics.
As it got later I was a little concerned that they wouldn't do one of my favorite tracks...Ain't Sayin' Nuthin' Sure enough, after the mellow stuff and some more messing around, they ended with a set of CRAZY HIGH ENERGY songs and of course, Ain't Sayin' Nuthin' was in there.
After that set, the lights went out and The Roots walked off stage. They could have left then, but the crowd was way to amped to settle for that. After about 5 minutes of constant applause and yelling, they came back on stage and performed a bunch of random stuff. Some Talib verses, an LL Cool J verse, some of thier older stuff. There was one point where Brother ? was singing the lyrics to MJ's Annie Are You Okay?
After the show, we went back to our colonial-eske hotel and watched TV until about 1:30 in the morning which wouldn't have been so bad but there was all kinds of door knocking around our room at 7:30 in the morning. After a long day of racing, driving, and concerting, 6 hours of sleep just doesn't do the trick.
We eventually got ourselves together, had a wack Continental breakfast of Kroger donuts, toast and OJ and made our way to Colonial Williamsburg.
I'll stop yammering and show a couple of pics from the trip.
One of the first things I noticed about Williamsburg in general is how flat it is.
You gotta be able to get your Colonial Birkenstocks.
I think I am falling asleep here.
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