BALTIMORE

Sage (john and valerie's daughter)

me and my mom





mom and
jess getting
ready





Me and jess in front
of science center

Valerie and mom
after races






a guy
ran this in a tux!






Alright so this weekend my mom, dad, and Jess and I went to Baltimore, Maryland. We went on Friday and stayed overnight. When we got there on Friday we first wanted to try and find the start and finish of all the races for Saturday. Once we did that we walked to the Harbor and looked around there. It was really cool. We saw the USS Constellation boat. So after we walked around there we started to walk towards where our car was. On the way we stopped to get Ben and Jerry's ice cream. it was SOOO good. Then we were trying to find our car but we werent sure exactly where we were so then we started walking the way we thought we should go and finally got there. So we went to our hotel which we stayed in Best Western. We checked in around 5:15. We were also in baltimore with another family. They were the Pitcavages. So we waited in our room until they got there and checked into their room. We then went downstairs and got some dinner. We got pizza. Then we all went back to the Pitcavages hotel room to eat. It was way to hott to eat in the restaraunt.After we ate and sat and talked for a while we went back to our hotel room and went to sleep. That morning my mom dad and brother jess left at 6:30 to get there for my mom to have enought ime to warm up and stretch for her marathon race. And Jess also got ready for his 5k race. I stayed in the hotel and went with John and Valerie. But before we left we stopped to get some free breakfast the hotel provided. It was so good. We had home made waffles and eggs. Well Valerie didnt because she was running the 1/2 marathon. When the pitcavages and I arrived there my mom had already been running for 45 minutes about. Which means she was around mile 4 1/2. My mom was doing great. While she was running the marathon Jess ran the 5k. He got 8th overall and there was like over a thousand people in his race. Then also during my moms race Valerie ran the half marathon. She did great. So finally at 12:30 my mom finished. she had ran from 8AM to 12:30pm. that is 4 hours and 30 minutes. She underestimated herself by an hour. She thought she was gonna run a 5 hour to 5 hours and 30 minutes. So unfortunatly we didnt get there in time to see her finish. Everything went great. The runners got a little shower of rain which they all said felt very nice. An my mom is actually up and moving. She is walking a lot better and is not as sore. After everyone stretched and was able to move we walked to our car and started to drive home. We met up with the Pitcavages to eat at Cracker Barrel. We had a lot of fun. Hope you enjoy these pictures.