Marathon

Today is Patriots Day in Boston - which is the official reason many businesses are closed today.  But Marathon Monday is the much more popular reason to celebrate the day.  

If you've never seen a marathon - it's pretty cool.  Kyle ran a marathon once - in Little Rock.  He had never ran a race before and just decided to run a marathon so he could check it off his "things to do before I die" list. Does this give you an idea of how stubborn he can be?  :)  I remember when I was waiting for Kyle to finish the race, I was so inspired by all the different people who were running.  Old and young, men, women, teams, solo - they were all running for a reason.  

Here's Kyle running the Little Rock Marathon

The Boston marathon is a pretty big deal.  Kyle and I watched most of the race coverage on TV today - but we're lucky that the course runs right in front of our apartment, so we got to experience some of it first hand too. We didn't stay out too long - the high today was 48 and that cold north wind was blowing hard - not the best baby weather.

Abby had a special outfit for the day of course.

Here are a few pictures of the race
These are the leading women as they pass our apartment- the view obviously from our floor inside.  The American- Kara came in 3rd in the end - but she was amazing to watch!


we wondered if there wasn't a double meaning behind these signs posted along the course.


there they go!


outside our apartment


Yesterday we bought an Ergo baby carrier for Abby.  We decided to try it out today as we took her out to see the race.  She seems to really like it.  She's super cuddly and seemingly content when she's in it.  The only downer is that you can't turn her to face outward in it - so we'll seeif we end up wanting something different or not.  Here we are all ready to go



Everything goes to the mouth now - daddy's fingers are no exception


Cheering on the runners!


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The marathon was great to watch.  It is inspiring to see so many people running that kind of race.  There were 26,000 people running today - well those are the ones who were registered.  I saw people who were running for a cause or for a person, we saw an old man dressed as a bumble bee, another man running in a kilt.  There was a man who ran dressed as an iPhone and on the way home we saw somebody dressed like a banana.  Fun times.  It was also fun to be part of the hundreds of admiring and cheering fans - clapping and yelling and high-fiving the runners.  Who knows, maybe one day I'll run a race. Maybe not a marathon to start...but maybe something smaller.  We'll see. :)
And I leave you with a picture of these baby blues. Gotta love 'em.