a new adventure everyday
to the ’00s. (Get it? *sigh* Nevermind.)
So here we are, the last day of the ’00s. So many things have occured in the world but instead of rehashing that, I will rehashed what happened in MY world.
I know there are more events that happened during these last ten years. Who knows what will happen in the teens (is what the next decade is going to be called?) but I am sure it will be documented better.
Happy New Year everyone! Goodbye to the old and hello to the new. Bring it, I’m ready.
With pumping that is. Elated and sad the same time but more elated though. Nine plus months of going to the mother’s room twice a day, five times a week: Done, done, done.
Happy Dance!!!
It was cold and windy. No rain so it was fantastic. We were invited to a Halloween party so that is where we started. Well, Diego and I went ahead first. Mia hadn’t taken a nap so Eric stayed at home with her. It was a fun time. We had food and the kids watched Ice Age. At 5:30, we went trick or treating. Well, Diego did. Mia just stayed in the stroller. I was sad because no one really saw her costume but I guarantee she looked cute. Here are some pictures I did take:
This is Eric’s first carved pumpkin he ever did:
I have to say, I was impressed. Lots of sketches were done until this one was declared the winner.
My ferocious pirate:
My friendly bumble bee:
And both of them together:
Not the best pictures but this is the best I can do. It is hard to have them look at the camera at the same time. 🙂
Sorry I haven’t updated. I (We) have been really busy since I got home on Sunday it’s not even funny. But here is my report:
My flight was on time and arrived at Orlando about 10 min early. Walked to the Magical Express area and waited about 15 min for my bus. If we ever fly to Orlando, we definitely going to use this service, it is fantastic. I was then wisked to the All-Star Sports resort but my room wasn’t ready. I was a little miffed because the lady just gave me an envelope with stuff but didn’t tell me my room number or anything. But I was too much in hurry to worry about it because I needed to get my race packet. I left my suitcase with the bell boys, they told me where to catch the bus to go to Wide World of Sports (there was a direct bus there).
I was smart enough to leave my jacket behind because it was hot. Unfortunately, I was still wearing my pants. I should have changed to my short but I was in a hurry. Oh well. I arrived to WWoS, got my stuff and went back to wait for the bus. The bus was running every 30 min so I didn’t wait long.
I was starving by the time I got back to the hotel. So before I went to the front desk to get my room number, I got some lunch/dinner from the cafeteria. It was turkey and cheese on a focaccia bread with a side of pasta salad. It wasn’t too bad. Very tasty.
I finally got my room number. The guy told me where to go but I still got lost looking for my room. This is when I realized how big the All-Star Sports was. It has a ton of buildings. I don’t think I will ever stay there again. It was nice but not for me. So I got to my room (third floor) but no bag. Called the bell boys and one of brought it for me. Got my things in order.
After eating my lunch, I was ready for a nap. I couldn’t. Figures the one time I could take a nap with no kids and I couldn’t. So called DH and he convinced me to go do something. So I did. Went to Downtown Disney. Glad I did because I did some shopping for the kids and DH. I had a feeling I wouldn’t have time to go on Sunday (and I didn’t). So got back to my room, changed and grabbed the direct bus to Disney Hollywood.
I called my coworker that was there and he was on his way. So I just walked around. Got in a line that I thought it was gear check but it wasn’t. It was the pre-race picture. Then found gear check. My friend finally showed so I hung out with him and his family.
Then it was time. My friend is a hardcore runner (he won his age group last year) so after his warm up, we walked to the start line. He made me start in the front which was funny because I am three times as slow as all of the runners there. It was intimidated standing up there with all those runners. I just had to laugh. Since this was a 5K and 13K race, we had to wait for the 5K to start before we can start lining up. Once that race started, we had to wait 15 min for our turn. They counted down (again), fireworks went off (again) and then finally we took off.
The weather was perfect. Probably in the low 60’s and partly cloudy. We ran around WWofS and then back to park. Once we go into the park, we ran on the service roads (not so magical back there) and we ran down the main streets of the park. Ran thru the car stunt show and we were on the jumbo screen. I am not exactly sure were the finish line ended but I think it was right behind the RocknRoller coaster.
I was shooting for 1:40:00 and my official time was 1:35:51. I was just happy to finish. My metal is super cool (it has a moving elevator).
So we got a little food bag, a 1.5 liter Disani and some Powerade. Guzzled the Powerade, scarfed down the muffin then got my gear. Called my friend to see were he was and walked over to the Mickey’s hat. He told me he came in second in his age group. He was only 20 sec behind the other guy. Poor him. lol
There was only an hour left to be in the park (they closed it at 2 am), so we went to see Muppet’s 3d, then walked to Toy Story Mania but the wait was 50 min. My friend and his family left at that point. I walked over to ride the Tower of Terror (awesome!) and I had enough time to ride the RnRoller coaster. Then my night was over.
I caught the bus back to my room. Showered and packed. Slept for 4 hours. Got up and finished packing and left. I went to the hotel store, where I bought a couple more things. I finally checked out and then went wait for my bus back to the airport. My flight was on time and even got to Midway 20 min early.
Too bad this was the last year for this year. It was a great experience. I have memories and an awesome medal.
Wow, this a long report and I was only there for about 24 hours. I am so glad I went. I did miss my family but I was there such a short time it wasn’t too bad. But I’ll be back in January 2010 for the marathon. 😛
Done, done, done! This trip has been so much fun. I’ve always wanted to run this race but never did. Then I heard that this year was it’s last, I decided to go for it.
I’ll come back later and finish this post. I’m on the plane right now. I just want to go home and see my family. I miss them so much.
TODAY!!! Woohoo! My annual list of things that happened to me while I was 34.
That is about it. Hopefully I will have a great year. My biggest birthday wish is that Mia would finally sleep thru the night. Let see how long it will be until my wish comes true. 😆
[Gosh, it has been a while. I really need to get up and start blogging. Bad me! 🙂 ]
Update: I had to switch our hotel reservation around since I thought other folks were coming with us but they decided they couldn’t but it still worked out for the best. (Did that make sense? Probably not.)
We are staying at the Port Orleans French Quarter. I was told that on race day, Disney opens a “path” from this hotel to Epcot so all the runners staying there can simply walk there. Very cool. I know a few people from work that are going and I will be tagging along. Well, at least to the starting line because they are hard core runners.
Another cool update: I added an extra day to our vacation and it turned out that the price went down $3.25. An even better reason to stay another day!
Well, that is it. I am still trying make time to run. I need to run 7 miles today. Someone is going out of town this week so running is out the window until Saturday. Wheeee!
Well, it came and went. The weather was great. It was a wee bit too warm but it was better than last year: which was cold and windy.
My goal was to run it in 42 minutes. Well, the good news is that I ran it in 38:18 minutes. The bad news it was slower than ’07 (35:52). At least it is over and I did it. The family was waiting for me at mile 3 so that was a nice surprise.
Afterwards, there was pizza, drinks and cookies. That was really nice of the company to provide. Hopefully next year, I’ll do better. Cheers!
Just so I don’t have to be looking for these next year:
2002 52:44
2003 41:50
2004 didn’t do it
2005 was pregnant
2006 didn’t do it
2007 35:52
2008 41:21
Read this today and it fits me to a T.
So sad but so true. 😆
Running that is. I ran for a whole 20:25 today. It is probably under 2 miles. It is a start but it felt great. The Shamrock Shuffle is in two weeks and this is the first time since June 1 that I get my tush running. Hopefully tomorrow I am shooting for 30 min of non stop running but I would be happy with 20 again.
I hope I don’t get lazy and stop. I have something major to run in less than a year.
see angie run 