We Tied for 1st Place

Janelle Waters and Heidi after the Half-Marathon. Don't we look great?

Adam wanted to cross the finish line with us.

We really didn't get 1st place for the whole thing. We got 1st place for the walkers. There were only three, and we were two of them. We did it in 3 hours 12 minutes, 14:40 min./mile. We had a lot of fun. The race organizers had said the course would be marked--didn't happen--thank goodness we knew the route. And, they said there would be police to help with the street crossings. We could see the police in the distance as they helped the runners. Then, they would drive away, right past us, and not help us. Now that I think about it, we should have had a faster time because we had to stop and wait for lights to change. However, we finally got our police escort when we were finishing because the winner of the entire marathon was finishing at the same time. He had the police all around him, so we just followed right behind like we were the winners, too. Anyhow, we had a good time, and we're not sore. My right hip hurt the rest of the day on Saturday but it was fine by the time I woke up on Sunday.

Saturday afternoon and evening we had our camp fundraiser--spaghetti dinner and auction. Everything went well. We had great attendance. I think only two families didn't come that had signed up. We made a ton of money--$1100--and we only have four girls going to camp. The ward members were very generous. Someone paid $42 for a German Chocolate Cake. And the candybar icecream pies sold great. They only cost $3 to make but most of them went for $15-$30 each.