Tour-de-Fat Aug 23rd

On Saturday the Tour-de-Fat strolled through Boise yet again for a fabulous day of fun-filled-folly. If you enjoy bikes, beer, and utter foolishness, you'd love the Tour-de-Fat! This is a bike loving, fun filled beer festival, held by New Belgium Brewing company. It moves around the country to select cities each summer and Boise just happens to be one of those lucky cities. We're very grateful for that too as it's so much fun! Each year the festival is started with a massive bike ride on which everyone is encouraged to dress up in ANY crazy costume they can think of (without getting themselves arrested that is). After this, everyone congretates in a park to drink beer, and listen to good music and to promote the New Belgium lifestyle. Unfortunatley this year, Chad and I missed the mass bike ride (we both had to work), but we each left work early in order to attend the last several hours of the festial. Here's what it looks like...

The stage and some performers down below (between bands playing).

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Here's what Chad looked like. Sweet hair and beer goggles sweetie! I'm a lucky woman!

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Me, and yes that is a beer in my hand. Okay, so it's Chad's beer, but I did sip on it occasionally.

At the center of the festival is a corraled off area where they've designed a bunch of funny bikes for people to ride. Here's Chad testing them out:

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A scooter bike.

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Yes, that is a bike with shoes for wheels. Doesn't everybody have one?

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Chad in background (some unknown guy in foreground) -there were lots of red shirts and pink helmets in the bike corral.

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This was the point where I wondered if it was wise to leave the insurance card at home...

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And finally...

Chad on a true fat-tire bike!

We've easily established that after a few beers, Chad likes riding goofy bikes in pink helmets, sticking his tongue out and flashing devil horns at everyone. In New Belgium style... 'Follow your Folly.' For that afternoon, that's exactly what we did.

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Can't wait until next year!