Good job Ben!

Ben ran a triathlon today! It was his first time, and he did it with a group of friends from his lab. His goal was to finish between 3 and 3.5 hours, and he ended up finishing in 2 hours 57 minutes - woah. Here is him looking like the champion that he is:

And here is me being proud of him, but also reluctant to hold him too closely because he was super sweaty:

Pride

Ben returned from Germany last night, just in time to go to the Pride parade today! It was a ton of fun to be surrounded by so many rainbows and high energy, happy people - the fact that DOMA and Prop 8 both got struck down this week made the whole celebration extra exuberant. It was also insanely crowded, so hard to get good photos, but I managed to snap a few...

Rainbow Robot!

I don't usually associate health insurance with rainbows..

...or the power company, for that matter.

Gay DNA!

Hehe. Wiener.

It was a nice way to celebrate the destruction of our traditional marriage, now that the gays getting married has ruined it for all of us.