Last weekend the kids and I went to Chicago for the weekend to celebrate my dad's 80th birthday. All four of us kids were there, along with 4 of their grandkids and one grandkid-in-law and one significant other. It was nice to see everyone since we rarely get together all at once.
This is my mom, brother Rick, Dad, sister Katie in the back row, and in front is my brother Dave, and Bobby and Ally and Chubs the boxer.
This is at the restaurant - Bobby and Ally are being tempted and spoiled with [virgin] hurricanes. My parents are both from New Orleans.
This is my brother Rick, my mom, me, my dad (notice he is standing up - he had a stroke three years ago but he can get out of his wheelchair now and took a few steps for us), and Bobby, Ally, and my little brother Dave.
This is my mom - after chowing at dinner the night before, we also had brunch at my niece's house on Sunday.
Dave, me and Bobby.
Back in Minneapolis, I burned off some of those calories with a kitchen spin. Here are me, Nick, Dia, Laura and Erik rocking out to the hip tunes of Coach Troy. (not! don't you wish we could plug our own music onto his DVD's -- it's horrible, horrible music!)
... and then everybody left. If you're not spinning all winter long in Minnesota, you will rue those first spring rides. This is a great way to keep your "bike legs," AND stay in touch with your buddies. I love my training group. You guys make it fun and make it all worthwhile! xoxoxox
On a final note, I did my 17 miler this week (averaged 9:25's), followed by about 8 miles (recovery) the next day, so my running legs are getting in shape too. T-minus 64 days to Fargo Marathon!
4 comments:
I love that Eric is wearing a shirt with his name on it :) See you tonight with Lamb in tow!
So glad you had a great visit with your family and your dad is doing well. Yah, that music on the Spinervals is terrible. It would be better if there was no music and you could just play your own.
You know, you can use your own tunes. On the disk setup, just turn off the music and you'll still have Coach Troy's voice. They only use that crappy electronic music because they don't want to pay for the rights to good tunes.
How nice that you got to see your parents and have this celebration.
And Coach Troy is my secret boyfriend. Oh how I love to dance with that man!
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