Events Leading Up to Leaving for Atlanta

On Saturday, May 2, Mommy walked with her friend, Patty, the American River Half-Marathon.  Last year, mommy and Patty walked the 13.1 miles in 3 hours and 12 minutes (give or take a few).  This year, Patty was pushed and pulled as she told Mommy she wanted to finish around 3 hours - a new goal for her - and they did!!  3 hours and 1 minute!!  They walked 13:50 minute miles.  And we were there to see them finish (well kind of).  Daddy kept texting mommy to see where she was and mommy relayed her status - but thought because it was raining (yes - mommy walked in the rain!!) she didn't think daddy was crazy enough to bring us out into it.  But he was crazy!  And we sat at the finish line, waiting... and waiting... and then Daddy got a call from mommy saying she is done and on her way home and he said "Where are you??" We had been waiting at the finish line for the runners - not the walkers.  There are two courses to keep the walkers TRUE to walking (however, mommy described her frustrations about how some walkers still ran which skewed the outcomes of course).  However, Mommy was still so excited to see us and we got to play with her medal... and on top of that - Mommy placed 3rd in her age group and gets another medal.  She wasn't even expecting that.  YEAH!!  

Caitlin - tired from waiting for mommy - plopped on bed with Popcorn.

Caitlin saying goodbye to Popcorn on Tuesday night (Popcorn became best friends with one of Mike's friend's dog - so she stayed with them)