Christmas week started with Santa Cross, somehow I got volunteered to wear the Santa suit?? I wasn't real impressed with the idea at first as I wanted to win the final race, at the same time I didn't want to be a party pooper. I figured if I'm playing Santa, well Santa is not going to

disappoint! After recovering from a hard start and Santa's first lap glory I settled back in and found myself in the sweat box following Brent Prenzlow. Brent started to slow, so I decided to lift the pace and see how he would respond, from there I rode the rest of the laps out front listening to Larry Longo on the microphone talking about Sid "Santa" Taberlay. It's amazing what you hear when you are racing :-) I sneaked in 8 races for the series, with best 10 counting towards the

overall, the best I could finish was 4th overall, though I am happy with my individual results: 5 wins, 2 seconds and a third.

Christmas Eve I headed down to Mr. Tedro's for not only Christmas Eve but also his birthday :-) A pleasant evening, some great cooking and good times. Happy Birthday Scott :-)

Christmas we broke all traditions and decided to do our own thing. We figured while everyone else was having Christmas lunch it would be a good opportunity to get out and about and not have to fight with the millions of other people around LA and headed for the beach and a

coastal drive.