MUCH Belated Post

So July 11th was the day we celebrated Sage's 35th BDay. And we did so in style...at the Hollywood Park racetrack, on a day with a hat contest, so all the ladies were sporting their finest wide-brimmed hats!



Sage's best party-throwing quality is that wherever we go, she manages to work out some deal for her party. Always some kind of special deal or extra thing to have thrown in - it's quite impressive really. And for this bday, she reserved boxes for us to be in, a man came over to explain all the betting rules and options for us, AND she had a race run in our group's honor. The awesomely dubbed "Sage Against the Machine" group.

For that race, we got to go down to the winner's circle to watch the horses run right by us at the finish line, and we had our photo taken as a group in the grassy area of the Winner's Circle. Here's a video of the last leg of the race


All in all, it was a great day, despite the fact that chris and I had very little luck with our picks. And when we did decide to randomly pick a horse b/c 8 was my lucky number, he turned out to be the favorite! So when we won, we won like $8. Haha. But the day was really about celebrating Sage, so we didn't care much about the results.

p.s. One of the reasons I didn't post for so long was b/c of all the excitement and running around with the work thing (see my last post!) and b/c Mara just had her baby! You can click on her blog site to the right to see photos.