Whaling Days 2010!!

What an awesome day for a 4 mile run and a parade!!

Michelle's family was with us last night (cause Jeromy's working on tiling her kitchen and keeping the kids off the floor for the 24 hours- pictures of that later!). We also had Phillip and their exchange student from China with us last night as well. So with Aurora, we had 13 kids, plus 3 adults that we had to get up, fed and out the door by 8 AM... mission accomplished!

Michelle had prepared "Baked French Toast" the night before and baked it in the morning early, so we had a YUMMY breakfast. All the kids ate- I think- then we were out the door!

I was so excited about the run this morning. I saw my running pal Regie again! We pretty much crossed the finish line at the same time. I ran the 4 miles in 38 minutes and 58 seconds- last year I ran it in 43 minutes, but I know there was another year where I ran it just under 40 minutes. So I was happy with my time. Can you tell? Wierd-O!

Some from our group... I think I counted 32 people in our sidewalk group... Tanya, Julia, Tessa- looking fabulous in her new purple running gear, me and Hannah- Hannah also got 3rd place in her age division...

Aurora looking sooo serious! There's the man... KYLE!

Getting ready for the parade to start... it started getting really crowded... but we had a bunch of chairs and blankets along the side walk... see Laura and Jason's family in there?A close up... those are some cute kids in there!There's baby Hannah watching the action...I love the big whale... especially against the clear blue sky... it's almost like we're underwater with it... use your imagination people :O)When the motorcylces drove thru this guy drove over by our group of kids and let the kids each honk his horn... here's Shane honking!Here we are... me, Michelle and Laura...Ummm.... could we get any tackier??? Kent, if you're reading this... that red thing on Jeromy's head is for you. Remember getting a blue one like it last year and you wore it until it fell apart? Surprise... a new one! We missed Jade and Kenton this Whaling days...It was getting pretty warm... Jason had some of the kids sitting under the back door of their car for some shade... you can see the 3 Chinese exchange students on the right...All the families were getting tired... after 2 hours of the parade... it still wasn't over... but we were all done... time to go... it's awesome when everyone is ready at the same time... Aurora and Jeromy...Here's my pin! This is the 30th annual "Whale of a run"! And this is my 5 time doing it... did it in 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009 and now 2010! I love running!

But now I need a nap.... peace out home dog.