Sunday, November 30, 2008

A Busy Weekend...

We were quite busy this weekend as I am sure a lot of you. On Friday morning, black Friday, I got up bright and early 3:45am to go shopping with Diana!! Can I tell you how excited I was to be able to do this after our 4 years in England. I only had a short while as we were leaving at 8am to go to Wisonsin for Andrew's cross country race. The time shopping went quickly but I had FUN!!

The race was at the University of Wisconsin Parkside in Racine and the weather could not have been better. At race time it was 35 and sunny with NO wind...it actually felt warm when compared to the meet we were at a couple of weeks ago. It had snowed earlier in the week so Maggie spent her time playing in the snow and entertaining herself. Christopher enjoyed himself too but he probably would not admit it. Andrew ran in the frosh/soph boys race and he had a really good race. His final time for the 5K was 17:48 and out of 215 runners he placed 70th. This was his second best time for the year so he felt good about how he did when compared to other runners from Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan,North Dakota and Nebraska. There were a lot of runners :-) He says he would definately go again as he loved running the course.
On the way home we stopped at the Jelly Belly factory and hoped to take the tour...WRONG! The line was huge and we were not prepared to wait so we just went into the retail store instead and did a bit of shopping. We also went to a cheese place on Friday and bought some yummy cheeses too.

3 comments:

susanb said...

I thought of you and Diana Friday morning. I knew that you would both be out shopping!!

Congratulations Andrew - Talk your family into coming to Disney with us to do the 1/2 marathon - of course you will beat all of us but we would have fun!

Diana said...

Love the jellybelly bug:)
WTG Andrew!!!

Hull Family said...

Was it the Mars Cheese Castle?