Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas! A great day for the Jingle Bell 5K complete with Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus!
Well, I am not sure I would want to cover a 5K connected by a sweater. I wonder if they took it off after they got started. One sweater, two people!
We found Susan! A fellow teacher at MAE!
And her lovely daughter Sara who was a student of mine at one time.
Great weather, the sun was shining and there was a chill in the air. Lots of people turned out for sure.
Here go the kids running with Santa's elves. When they started Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was playing. Precious.
Well, here we are!
Susan and her group!
Now Sara was added!
Snowmen or women! There were lots of great costumes.
Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree!
Even the dogs dressed up!
I tried to edit and get the sun darkened but no luck. You get the idea!
Here we go! I was a bit disappointed that we did not get Christmas music when we started like the kids did. Adults like Christmas music too.
As always, Spokane doesn't disappoint.
Gonzaga University!
The home stretch!
The end for Sheila and I! We didn't see Bonnie and Michelle so we hatched a plan.
Not sure Santa would have approved of our plan!
The deal is when your friends have no idea that you are concocting a great plan to mess with them and they don't even notice the implementing of the plan it becomes a big disappointment. The sneaking around planning was the best part.
We decided to watch for Bonnie and Michelle and we would sneak up right behind them and finish again. We thought this was a great idea. Brilliant! We hide behind all these benches so they wouldn't see us. Were we hiding good enough? What would we say to them when we showed up right behind them? Would we tell them it was the second time we finished? Would they ask any questions about finishing twice? Who knew! Marvelous plan!
That's them! No it's not! Is that them? Is that Michelle's bright coat?
Finally we see them. We sneak behind them slowly. We finish right behind them and what happened next? They never looked back, they never looked for their friends Sheila and Jackie. They went straight to the bathrooms. Epic fail on our part or was it and epic fail on their part for not looking for their friends to see if they finished? We need a better plan next time!
Another fun day with my EAOD (Elite Athletes Only Different) friends! Exercise, great weather and the Claus family. What more could I ask for!
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