BOSTON MARATHON!!!!

Today is Patriot's Day in MA!! There are A LOT of things going on today, the marathon,

the Red Sox play and there is a reenactment of the Battle of Lexington.

We chose the Marathon, free and not 5:00 in the morning!

Today is also the start of our weeklong Spring Break!!

Deriba Merga of Ethiopia, this is the guy that actually ended up winning the marathon. We had just gotten to our spot at mile 19 and he was running by. Yes, he was fast. The race started at 10 am and he passed us at about 11:30. He finished in 2:08:32.
This is Rick and Dick Hoyt. Dad is 68, son is 47. Dick pushes Rick the entire 26.2 miles.

They are very inspiring. Rick joined the church not long ago and is in a Branch that is in our stake.

We saw numbers in the 27000's.

Passing out water.

Brynn and Jane passing out water.

At one point, the kids were having a contest to see who had the most water taken.

More water!

It was a very fun day! I had a friend who was supposed to run this race, but she got hurt and couldn'tmake it, but it would have been so fun to see someone I knew. Although some of the friends we were with had friends running. Hopefully, we will have friends in it next year! I did get to see Bill Rodgers and he looked like he was going to throw up on Marissa. I was so excited to see him that I forgot about my camera and didn't get any pictures of him. I will do a post about him (since none of my friends that were with me at the race know who he is). I will wait until some of my friends who had their cameras and didn't really care about Bill and had the sense to take pictures, sends them to me!!!

1. MARATHON

2. decent weather

3. fun friends to hang out with and shake!