Lees in France

This is the moment we have all been waiting for, the race is coming. We put Cody in the car for safe keeping. Mazie heads across the street. I am just in front of our car. Zach is just past the car and Randy runs up the road a way.

The famous motorcycle carrying people in yellow zooms past. The helicopter approaches and hovers in the field beside Mazie. Support cars carrying bikes approach.

The field of bikers is now starting to climb toward us.

In an instant they zoom past us. In this situation do we look with our eyes or take pictures?!?

In one photo Mazie managed to capture the green, polka dot and yellow jerseys.

The peloton is now climbing away from us. A few bikers off the peloton are spinning their legs past us. Chase cars in back with bikes on top are bringing up the rear. And just like, that they are all gone.

I look across the road and Mazie has an enormous smile on her face! Zach bolts over to her. A chase car has thrown a water bottle out for her! This is unbelievable! 

The race is over for our viewing area. Spectators clean their areas and leave. A friend from home was watching the race. He snagged a picture from the broadcast. Here I am in blue, a tad fuzzier than the last time people in America saw me. What a wonderful and perfect day to celebrate Randy turning 50!