Happy Pioneer Day! To celebrate, we went with John's sister Marcie to her Stake's event that was held at Medical Lake. Actually, we went because Marcie said they were having a fun run around the lake, about 3 miles. There seemed to be a bit of confusion on when the run would start (5:30? 7pm?) but they did finally announce that it would start at the same time that they started serving the meal. He even said "We'll save food for the runners" (silly, silly man). So we started on the run. We were sorely tempted to turn around just a bit into the run and go back to eat and sit by the lake, but we persevered. My running buddy & niece Lindsay hung out with me (thanks Lindsay) and Audrey stayed with Marcie. John (speedy boy) ran ahead of all of us. He finished in 25 minutes. Marcie & Audrey finished in 33 minutes. I did not catch Derek's time (nephew). Lindsay & I leisurely walked & talked & finished with 46:44.
We all headed over to get some food only to learn that they had run out. They had to go to the store. Here is where the Pioneer spirit kicked in (grateful for what you are given and make do with what you have). They brought back a bag of lettuce mix & some cans of chili. I think everyone else had gotten a taco salad, but we got lettuce with COLD chili and salad dressing. We just did not get filled up on this so the next Pioneer spirit kicked in (ingenuity) and we headed back to Spokane and stopped at Arctic Circle for hamburgers, fries and milkshakes. We did have a fun time, so please don't take the commentary on the event in any way except as an accurate accounting of the facts.
Happy Pioneer Day! To celebrate, we went with John's sister Marcie to her Stake's event that was held at Medical Lake. Actually, we went because Marcie said they were having a fun run around the lake, about 3 miles. There seemed to be a bit of confusion on when the run would start (5:30? 7pm?) but they did finally announce that it would start at the same time that they started serving the meal. He even said "We'll save food for the runners" (silly, silly man). So we started on the run. We were sorely tempted to turn around just a bit into the run and go back to eat and sit by the lake, but we persevered. My running buddy & niece Lindsay hung out with me (thanks Lindsay) and Audrey stayed with Marcie. John (speedy boy) ran ahead of all of us. He finished in 25 minutes. Marcie & Audrey finished in 33 minutes. I did not catch Derek's time (nephew). Lindsay & I leisurely walked & talked & finished with 46:44.
We all headed over to get some food only to learn that they had run out. They had to go to the store. Here is where the Pioneer spirit kicked in (grateful for what you are given and make do with what you have). They brought back a bag of lettuce mix & some cans of chili. I think everyone else had gotten a taco salad, but we got lettuce with COLD chili and salad dressing. We just did not get filled up on this so the next Pioneer spirit kicked in (ingenuity) and we headed back to Spokane and stopped at Arctic Circle for hamburgers, fries and milkshakes. We did have a fun time, so please don't take the commentary on the event in any way except as an accurate accounting of the facts.
2 comments:
We should know NO event starts on time when we're dealing with "mormon" standard time. We had a great time with you guys. Thanks Audrey for making the run more enjoyable!
I'm shocked that they would even think there would be food left...hopefully next year they would know to start the run before they put out the food!
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