if you weren't afraid of clowns...

...you will be after this! on our way to where we would stand during the race we saw two people putting on makeup in their cars to be dressed as clowns. little did we know what would happen. during the bike race the clowns were out and about handing out flyers, candy and providing entertainment. some how or another, the foreigners became part of the entertainment. here is a progression of the events.

stage 1. here the clown grabs a chunk of my hair and ties a balloon into it. he then blows the balloon up.

stage 2. then he makes it into a bow, or really just a blob. he then teased my hair. that is right, he took another chunk of hair and ran a comb through it to make it big and tangly.(not sure that is a word but that is what it was like!) my hair hasn't been teased since 1995 with the big bangs!


stage 3. then clown went away for awhile only to come back to pick on jessica. she already had her hair in a pony tail so it was a little easier to mess with. i am not really sure if this picture does justice in what it actually looked like. it was said that my hair looked like i was going to prom in 1989. gross, i know. i also kind of felt like deb off of napoleon dynamite.


stage 4. the clown proceeded to bryan after he picked on jessica. with the lack of hair on bryan, the clown decided to dust his hair and then comb through it with the nasty comb.


stage 5. the race was over and we were on our way home when the clown caught our eye again. this time it was lydia. he tied a balloon in her hair and blew it up to make a flower. not to the extreme of what jessica and i endured but still very odd.

needless to say we learned a lesson today; do not make eye contact with clowns. or as bryan said, we should have locked them in their cars when we saw them putting on makeup!