Daddy did great in the race!

We had another busy weekend, but I had a really good time. We were planning on going to go to the Washington Freedom game at the Soccerplex on Saturday evening. Well, daddy managed to win us tickets ON the field! He won a trivia contest hosted by the back up keeper, Kati Jo Spisak and we got two free tickets on the field. It was great - they had chairs set up on the side and there was even enough room for me to sit and play with my soccer ball in the grass. It was a whole new perspective on the game.

We had a LONG day on Sunday. Mom got me up at 5 am and we headed down to Leesburg so dad could run the 10K. We got there around 6:30 and found Jay and Molly pretty quickly. Shortly before the race, dad went to warm up and mom and I started walking so we could see him about a mile from the start. We saw dad, Molly and Jay, then walked down a side street to meet back up with them at about mile 5 on their way back. Molly ran the 20K, so she had to go farther before she turned around and came back up the trail. We saw dad and yelled at him and took his picture, but he didn't see us :( After he went by, mom took me up the trail where the runners were. We stayed to the left side and got out of the way of bike riders coming towards us. Then we saw Jay and told him there was only a half mile to go - I think he was happy about that :) Mom and I walked the rest of the way to the finish line and found dad and Jay after they had gotten cold washcloths and some food. We waited for a while, then walked back down to see Molly come across the finish. I'm glad to say that all three of them finished with flying colors :) Now I'm getting excited to "ride" in my first 5K in September! Daddy beat the time he was aiming for and said he was going to take a week off, then start training with the stroller for the 5K. Mom is running in that one, so dad said he'd push me. Should be interesting!





















I fell asleep on the walk back to the car after the race...



After the race, we went back to Jay and Molly's house to get changed and relax a little. I discovered the *best* toy there - a tennis ball!!! Kona didn't really want to play with me, but she was good and shared her toys :) She even gave me a ball to bring home with me! When we left there, we went to the DC United - Real Madrid game at Fed Ex field. We managed to get my stroller and diaper bag in to the stadium (we apparently found the right security guard, unlike poor Ken and Marie who had to fight with guest services), so that made things a little easier. Daddy was really excited to see Real Madrid play, especially since they have picked up some big name players. Mom ended up sitting with me in the concourse for nearly the whole game because it was SO hot. Marie and Arabelle came and sat with us too :) We lost the game, but it was tied at zero at half time, so that's pretty good! It took us almost 2 hours to get out of the parking lot thanks to the useless volunteers directing traffic. Mom said she was going to boycott Fed Ex because of that. I don't blame her - I was much less than thrilled myself.





















This is the aftermath of a very hot and sticky day - check out my hair :) Needless to say, I got dumped in the tub after dinner!