On August 7th 2010, Brad, myself, Billy and Adam did Raymond's first triathlon which was also our first. We participated in the super sprint category which was a 200 meter swim, 10 km bike, and 5 km run. We had a lot of fun and I think we all did a great job even though we didn't have racing bikes, just plain old mountain bikes. Out of 26, Brad came in 6th, I came in 10th, Billy came in 23rd and Adam 24th but they were just two out of three their age that did the super sprint; the rest of the 12 and unders did the kids. These were our overall times: Brad - 46:36.70; Rebecca - 47:38.45; Billy - 59:08.60; Adam - 59:20.65. Maybe we will make this an annual event.
I was getting really frustrated with putting pictures on here so I just put the one. Maybe I will put more on later.
Mexico, here we come! On Sunday the 15th, we surprised the kids and told them we were going to take them to Mexico in October. We told them by showing them some pictures on the TV that Brad had downloaded; pictures of a plane, the place we were going to stay, the beach and so on. Needless to say, they were pretty excited and are now counting down the days(45). What's funny is that a day or so before we told them, Adam was commenting on how we never get to go anywhere on a plane that's warm and sunny like Mexico or Hawaii. We just get to go to Utah and Raymond (not that we don't love going to Utah and Raymond. I guess they are not exotic enough for Adam). I had to try and keep from smiling because of course I already knew we were going. We are going to stay at an all-inclucive resort called Dreams Puerto Aventuras (pictured here), just south of Cancun. We leave on October 9th and return on the 16th. Jenny has never flown before, Amy not since she was a baby, and Billy and Adam when we flew home from Rochester in 2003 when Adam was 2 and Billy was 5. That will be half the adventure. Here is the reaction.
