Fun in Curaçao:

Ok dear readers, miss Fede is back blogging again. I had promised you a post about cycling market, but the amount of pics coming in from Curaçao have made me changed my mind. Therefore, here's a little post about the place where every cycling fangirl of the world would like to be right now. First of all, however, let me tell you about a great discovery I made this morning: in Russia they don't say 'cousin', but they say something which, translated in English, would sound a bit like 'brother once removed' - in Russian, 'dvojurodnyj brat'. Therefore, if your Russian teacher wants you to tell her what you did yesterday, and yesterday you had to go to the baptism of 'the son of the cousin of your father', well, just make up that you went to the cinema with a friend. Or, better, just say that you spent the day resting. It's a lie but, at least, thanks to it you won't look like an idiot while trying to repeat the 'dvojurodnyj brat' thing.

Ayway. Enough about me for the moment. Let's talk serious stuff - the Curaçao Amstel Gold Race, for example. Of course I know that you, dear readers, aren't interested at all in the race itself, but I think it is interesting to notice that, this year, Andy Schleck's good results include a second placement at the Tour de France and a second placement in this amazing race by the sea. Seriously, the guy is becoming a living second placement. However. First in the race was Marcel Kittel, whereas 3rd was Johnny 'Barbed Wire' Hoogerland. All in all, a great podium.  

On to the usual show that the riders put up for photographers and fangirls every year, this time there were at least 6 things to notice about it:
1. no dolphins appear in the pictures published on Cyclingnews / Corvos/ Tim De Waele's websites. Shall we start getting worried??

2. after many years of playing with the dolphins/ jetskiing/ scuba-diving / sunbathing/ playing with the dolphins, the riders could finally enjoy some new exciting activities like fighting with pillows while staying in a very precarious position by the pool. This fun activity apparently replaced the one previously known as 'playing with the dolphins' - the poor marine creatures, in fact, were probably fired by their employers after they asked for a higher wage.

3. there was one rider (Marcel Kittel) who wasn't as skinny as the other ones. In fact, dear girls, I'm happy to tell you that his arms are actually thicker than mine. I feel happy!!!

4. there was one rider (Johnny Hoogerland) whose legs were much more impressive than the ones of the other riders. Apparently, that cursed barbed wire left its marks.

5. Andy Schleck brought his girlfriend along - yes girls, he has a girlfriend and they've been a couple for quite a while now. Btw, they're so cute together!!

6. Contador didn't go to Curaçao because on Sunday he and his long-time girlfriend Macarena were busy getting married. Mrs. Contador looked gorgeous on that day and miss Fede obviously takes this chance to wish her and her husband a happy, long and serene life together.

As far as the things-who-never-change-under-the-Curaçao-sun are concerned, instead, I think we definitely need to underline Frank Schleck's eternal skinnyness (is this a word, I wonder?). Still, I must admit I am extremely shocked by the lack of pictures in which the riders play with the dolphins - so shocked that I'm going to end this post here and search for some more news about the dolphins' fate. Hopefully I'll discover that those funny creatures are on strike or that they've become so shy that they now refuse to appear in the photos from the island - or, more likely, I'll just find out that silly me has forgotten to check an important cycling website full of Curaçao pictures.