We decided to run the family 9/11 memorial mile run. The girls were upset we didn’t run the mud run last month, so we felt obligated to follow through with this run. We went over to the start to sign up before the race. The girls found some friends and started playing chase in the grass. We figured they would use all their energy and not want to run. But when we got lined up with all the other families, the girls were excited. They shouted, “Go!” and the girls and their friends took off. Howard, James and I did all we could do to catch up to the children since they did not block off the street. Blythe and Xander were running together. Delaney and Allison started together but then Delaney started to slow. Howard stayed with Blythe and I stuck with Delaney. Blythe and Howard ran the whole way together! Blythe was happy she even beat Xander. When they passed the first loop, they all grabbed water. Xander stopped to drink it but Blythe and How kept on going. He said that he was hoping she would want to stop because he did but she didn’t! Delaney walked a few times but she always kept moving. We caught up to Allison on our final half of loop. The three of us girls ran across the finish line together. It was a lot of fun. The kids were so proud of their accomplishment!! They rested for a bit but then ended up playing on the playground for about 30 minutes while James (Xander and Allison’s dad) ran the 5K.
We came back inside and got cleaned up and packed some things to take to the house. We hoped to take things over slowly so that we didn’t kill ourselves trying to move everything at once. It was fun going in the house ourselves. We all can hardly wait to have space to spread out!!
Then we met our sponsors at the Cuma Archeological ruins. The city of Cuma is the most Anciet Western Greek colony. It was an amazing place. Built into the side of a mountain, this colony was really impressive. Unfortunately, we forgot all of our cameras. We were so excited about taking things to the house we forgot to think about what we were doing after. Fortunatley, we went with our sponsors, and Keith brought his camera. So pictures will follow shortly. We forget how close we are to the water until we go to a place like Cuma. The colony must have been a port at one time. The views from up here were outstanding. We were not thinking this was a big walking area. So after running a mile, we must have walked another mile or so around these runins. The girls were troopers and seemed to enjoy the outing. We then ended up at Lago d’Averno. Our sponsors had never been there and we heard it was pretty. We ended up walking around the perimeter of the lake. I so wish I had a podimeter on today. I am sure we walked 3-4 miles by the end of the day. It was a fun walk with some really neat winerys on the side of the lake. Nothing was open but we got to see some beautiful grapes growing!
Since everyone was now throughly tired, we headed out to dinner. We went to a neat little restaurant called Old Friends. The food was yummy! The girls had great pasta and I had really good veal and mushrooms. Dinner was great but dessert was outstanding. I had heard their choclate mousse was good, that was an undetstandment! It was so rich and creamy, your spoon could stand up in it!
It was such perfect ending to a fun family day!
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