This morning we ran the Hot Chocolate 10K in Minneapolis. This was a great race for me the first 5K was 40 seconds faster than Goldy's 5K on Sunday. The second half wasn't so great but there is the big hill at mile 4 and my feet were hurting at mile 5 and 6. Overall I finished 2 minutes faster than last year so that is a huge win!

 

We made the last minute discussion to run the Goldy's 5K. My brother has been walking a ton so I told him that needed to do a 5K.  So we registered yesterday and picked up our bibs before the Loons game. Alec started near the start and ran a mile before Eric, Mike and I even started!  Alec finished 14th overall with a time for 19:47. Eric came in at 33 minutes, I was just under 43 minutes and Mike was under 53 minutes. It was a chilly wet race but thankfully the rain came after we were done running.

Beautiful sunrise on the way to the race.

Keeping warm before the race. We met up with my friend Meghan

Start!

Finish

All finished

Mike had a PR

Cool medal

Eric, DJ, Mike, and Alec held the banner tonight at the Loons Game. It was an exciting game with the Loons tying the game in the 87th minute. 

 

We flew into NYC on Friday for Michael's wedding. The flight was pretty uneventful with some nice views coming into LaGuardia.

It didn't take long for us to grab our luggage and catch an Uber to the hotel. The Uber was the best choice. It only took 30 minutes to get to the hotel vs an hour on public transportation. We also had a nice view from the Kosciuszko Bridge. 

We dropped our luggage off, ran into Matt, Noah, Elizabeth and Jim and called another Uber to The Wicked Monk for the Rehearsal Dinner. I rode with Elizabeth and Jim and we got caught up on all life's events. It has been 4 years since we last saw them in Brussels.  The meal was delicious. Even though it was a Friday during Lent, Eric gave me "permission" to eat the Chicken Cordon Bleu and Steak. I got a really nice photo of the Morales family.

 It turned into a late night but I got some nice photos on the ride back to the Hotel.

Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to Staten Island

Eric, Alec, Mike and I went to the Minnesota Loons Home Opener on Saturday. When I saw a March 2nd game, I thought it would be crazy cold. Well I didn't realized we would have a real warm winter and it was a beautiful sunny, 60 degrees!  I actually got hot. I like the new kit (aka jersey) so I got one. So did Mike and Alec. We all match now.  We left during stoppage time because the Loons were losing and Eric said the game was over...30 seconds after we walked out of the stadium...they scored. hahahahahaha. 

We jumped on the bus right away and were back to the car in now time. We met Linda, Kennedy, Josh and friends at the Mall of America. We walked around a bit and then went home and had Pizza Hut and watched Next Goal Wins movie. It was a good day. 

this is not the jersey I bought. just another option.

We had a great night celebrating Carmen’s 9th birthday. We had Dominos pizza for dinner. We had some cake for dessert and she opened presents. After all that, we play several games of Bingo! I won twice!

 I've been working in downtown Minneapolis my whole career (24 year!!) and I have always admired the historic Foshay Tower. I had heard that you could go up to the top floor observatory but have never done it. After going to the RV Show at the Convention Center we decided to finally do it. We had to check in at the hotel front desk and they had to let us into the elevator. I thought there was a charge but we didn't get charged anything so that was sweet. The views were pretty amazing. I'm glad we finally ventured up there.