I've had a great weekend...but I always do when my mom comes to visit. She came this weekend to walk the Capital 10K with me and Step.
She got here on Friday afternoon. The first thing we did was enter rush hour traffic to pick up our race packets down at Parmer Event Center. I've never had so much fun in rush hour traffic! I think maybe she should move to Austin and ride to work with me everyday :-) Friday evening, we met Stepan at NXNW for drinks and appetizers.
Saturday we had grand plans to do all sorts of things. We were going to shop, plant trees, do Spamorama, and make ice cream take to Elizabeth's for dessert. Well, Stepan dug the holes for the trees (3 of them) while Mom and I went to the store for ice cream ingredients. Of course, once we started on the ice cream, I realized I had forgotten the rock salt and ice (I should know better than relying on a mental list!) so it was back to Albertson's for me! Making ice cream was amazing! You just prep all the creams (5 cups of heavy whipping cream, 2.5 cups of half and half, and 2 cups regular milk), put it all in the bucket and plug it in. It churns for about 40 minutes, then you lift the lid and there's ice cream there! I'm still amazed it works.
Elizabeth fixed us a wonderful pasta dinner on Saturday evening and as always I enjoyed playing with Jonathan and visiting with Cynthia, Brian, Joy, Elizabeth, and Dale. Dale has lovely parents. I think it's fantastic that they can spend so much time here every year, and I know that Jonathan (and his parents) love it as well.
Today was race day. Since our start time wasn't until 9am, we didn't have to get up too unreasonably early. It's been years since I've done this race - since I committed to walking the course, it was a very stress free event for me. I got to really enjoy the company, costumes, and the live bands playing every mile or so. We all completed the race about 3 minutes faster than the Cowtown 10K. We didn't sign up for the chip timing, so I don't think we'll get official race times....so our actual placing don't matter so much...
Posted by jfer at March 30, 2003 4:36 PM