Yawn. 8:14 pm and I am beat! The morning started off with my alarm at 5:20. I rubbed my bleary eyes and went downstairs for an English muffin and some coffee to load me up for a nice morning run. By 6:05, I was on the road with a lady from church who invited me to run with her. One hour, 4 min. and 6.5 miles later, I was back on the road to change my clothes, rinse the sweat off my face and head over to Waid Park, where Ryan and I were helping register folks for the Pigg River Ramble. Not sure why registration started at 7:30 when the canoe race didn't start until 10:45, but it was fun chatting with everyone and getting involved. It poured down rain at one point which was kind of discouraging, but it cleared up pretty quick.
Our canoe launched at 11:14 and 2 hours later plus a dump at The Ledge and one other spill (both my fault--I am NOT a great canoer!) we finished at Lynch Park. We have sore necks and shoulders and backs (and I learned many a life lesson on leading (I'm not great at it)/following (not great at that, either)/trying to navigate only to find out Ryan was steering from the back (kinda made me mad)/and even if we passed Bryan & 4-year-old Andrew AND Ray and 8-year-old Jake, we still didn't really win anything. Hmmm. But we did pass them.
Enough about today...
This next week is going to be here and gone before I can take a breath! Ryan has an open house at his office on Thursday, Gabe's birthday is Friday, and we leave for Colorado on Saturday, so I want time to speed up and slow down all at once. I can't wait to see my family, but I am really excited about Gabe's birthday simply because he is so excited to be 3. Here is how a conversation with him goes these days:
Anyone: How old are you?
Gabe: I'm two. My birthday is May 15th. Then I'll be 3! I'm going to have cupcakes. Then, the day after my birthday, we're going to fly {he cups his hand into a tiny plane shape and zooms it through the air} to Grandpa Dave's house. On a big, big plane. And we're going to go very, very fast!
We are all very excited to go, but not before we eat cupcakes!
Other things to get excited about...
-Sleeping with the windows open.
-Spring thunderstorms.
-Getting on a workout routine again.
-Running the BolderBoulder with my brothers and sister-in-law.
-Mestizo's CD release party the day we get to CO.
-My hammock.
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