Bloomsday

2009 was finally the momentous year that Kelli had been waiting for: running Bloomsday on her actual birthday. So, on Saturday morning, Kel & Kevi Kev picked up me & BK in Kev’s new Jeep and we set off across the state to Spokane for the big day. We arrived into town just in time for lunch at the Milk Bottle. Despite talking a big game, BK went with a side of fries instead of Ice creams, so Lauren continues to reign as the Dairy Queen  

With some time to kill before family dinner and not many options for entertainment in Spokane, we stopped by the North Town Mall to see Wolverine (which was ok). Up in Colbert we took a quick nap in the Strawberry Shortcake room, then joined everyone upstairs for our traditional pre-Bloomsday dinner of lasagna, salad, garlic bread and layer cake. Yummy as always! Once the fam left, we watched How I met your Mother, a bit of the Sounders game, and then crashed, BK’s feet hanging off the end of his small twin bed…

It had been rainy the night before so we weren’t sure what to expect for race day. Luckily things turned out pretty well for us. As usual we parked near Spokane Arena, walked over the falls, and then went to find our designated areas. Kelli was in the highest group for our crowd, yellow, followed by Kevin in Green and me & BK in Orange. Since I hadn’t been running at all, I wasn’t expecting much which was fine. It s such a fun event I never care about my time. At 9:00am, the 51,000 participants slowly started taking off, I love seeing all the families and different groups participating, as well as all the bands and folks having parties along the route. It’s such a positive community event. After tackling Doomsday hill my hip was started to hurt so we didn’t run much after that. In the end we crossed the finish line around 1:45 – slower than usual but still fine. Picked up our light blue finisher t-shirts and found K & K at the coffee shop with Anne-Marie’s mom and Aunt. Unfortunately AME was sick and didn’t come down, despite all of our begging pleading.

We stumbled back towards the car, and back to Colbert for lunch and showers, we gorged on leftovers from the night before, then loaded up to head home. Since BK had b=never been to Zip’s though, we did pull off in Ritzville for milkshakes. Mmmm…