Sunday's Bike Ride and Basketball

This past Sunday, we had a few new friends join us for our mountain bike ride. We had probably the biggest group ever this time. Andy, Denny, Florence and Phong, George and Juliette, Kan, Keo, Lee, Monica, Toma and myself made it out to tackle north Lake Hodges trail again. The day was initally windy but it settled down somewhat and became really beautiful and nice out. Gotta love San Diego in the winter. It has been a month since we all had time to get together for our weekly ride so it was nice to get such a large turnout.

Juliette and George - Two of Kan's friends she brought along

Lee with his new bike

This is Kan, Denny and Lee's cousin's wife's sister(?) or 2nd cousin twice removed. I met Kan when her sister was in SD on vacation with her husband and two boys. The boys took them out fishing and when they brought the fresh fish back, Julie and I were naturally there to clean and make a nice dinner out of it. Fun, fun!

After the bike ride, we stopped by my house where Julie cooked up a big pot of tasty vietnamese curry. It's like burger king, you can have it your way... with either rice, noodles or bread. Andy brought over his Wii so we made sure to get a few games of that in. Once everyone replenished their energy, we decide to head down to the park for some tennis and basketball.

Lee putting the moves on Kan...basketball moves that is

Is this a foul? ;) There was a lot of this going on

Keo taking it to the hoop...nice layup

Denny sinks it from downtown to end the first game

Toma warming up for round two

The second basketball game started off nice. My team, which consist of Lee, Monica and George, took off with a 6-1 lead. At the opening, I took it to the basket with a quick 360 under the basket no look finger roll past three menacing defenders. (hey, it's my story...I can tell it how I want to) It all started out nice and fun...but you know how it is...it's all fun and game until someone gets hurt. A little into the game, my shoulder pops out and back in. But it's ok as it went in right away so I am ok...still got full strength in the arm. Well, the bad occurred when I had to step up my game to adequately guard Denny. Denny with his knees reconstructed a year ago was more agile than before. That required me to step it up a notch like Emeril would say. Well, that notch broke me as my shoulder separated for the second time that day. Worst dislocation I had as I was not able to pop it back in until a few hours later. What pain!

I think for next time, I will just bandage up the bad arm to my body and I will play with one arm. You know how in old movies, the samurai with the one arm or the blind martial arts masters are the ones who kicks ass? Well, perhaps with one arm, my game will be taken up to the next level. hahahahaha