Fluffy Tia

Jen snapped this just before the ceremony.
It totally cracks me up.
Tia in a big sea of princess-like-fluffy-white-girly-ness displaying a nice collection of scars and scrapes down her arm earned from a variety of different bicycle related crashes over the years.
yup, you can put the tomboy in a dress with face paint, but you can't take the tomboy out of the tomboy. :)

what you don't exactly see in this picture is me completely slumped in a wooden kitchen chair in the bathroom w/ my feet propped up at head level on the sink. It was just after this when i said something like "I think i have to pee again, do you think it's just pre-race jitters? or do i really need to go again?!" b/c trying to go pee while wearing a sea of princess-like-fluffy-white-girly-ness is truly a team effort. (Thanks Team Bridetribe!)