Our Little Thanksgiving & Yoga

It was just the two of us and neighbor Dave for Thanksgiving. It was nice and relaxing. We had all the usuals turkey, mash potatoes, stuffing, green beens, ect. The night before we had a "pre-Thanksgiving," per Adam's request. He taught me how to play cribbage, but became frustrated that Dave and I were not taking it seriously. I had worked that day and was very tired so by 11pm I was all goofy and laughing at everything and Dave kept obsessing over the gift he ordered on-line for his girlfriend. He would just sit there and stare at it. Adam swore to never play cribbage with us again.

Just this morning Adam and I went to yoga for the first time together. It was fun, and a good thing for Adam's inflexible hamstrings and sore back, even though he said he felt gay. But as we were doing some of the "manuvers", with our eyes closed, I could hear Adam moaning and groaning, making the strangest noises as he tried to grab both his ankles while laying on his stomach. I was trying so hard not to laugh, it became very difficult and a few times it slipped out. There was only 5 of us in the class, 3/5 were pretty serious about yoga. It reminded me of our freshman year in college, we were just barely friends. Me, Adam, his roommate and a friend of mine were taking a Human Nutrition final. They were passing out the finals and one of us said or did something, I don't even remember what, but it became so painful to not laugh that we all seriously were silently crying and holding our stomachs for the first 15minutes of the final, no joke. The whole room was silent and we were getting glared at and scolded for laughing so hard we were crying! Those are some of the best moments in life, when you laugh so hard you cry, especially when its inappropriate to be doing so.

Big Sur

Last weekend was my Big Sur Half Marathon in Monterey, CA. Adam's good childhood friend Charlie lives there and hooked us up with a great room at the Hyatt. Below are some pictures of the golf course that sits on the grounds of the hotel.

The morning after the race, Adam was napping and I got some chai tea and sat right here in front of this sand pit and watched the guys golf on the 17th green (you can see it in the R corner). I learned a lot that day about golf. I realized I actually really liked the idea of guys playing golf together, pretending to be gentleman and playing a game that they are all horrible at. I didn't see one guy on the green put the ball in the first time. So, they pay lots of money to play this game their no good at in slacks and polo's and drive around in little carts and appear as if they are gentleman playing the gentlemans sport. But having sat there for about an hour the idea of not being able to change a man was confirmed. They would drive those golf carts like mad men, swear and curse everytime they had a bad shot, smoke cigars and you know in the back pocket of those fancy pants was a big old nasty chew can, not to mention the cheap beer they had tucked in their golf bags. It's a funny thing

The 7AM start, over 6,000 runners.
The pictures following is the trail that the race took place on.....it was unbeleivable how beautiful it was, we even ran past Pebble Beach Golf course. 90% of the race was ocean side!

I had never seen Aloe plants before they were everywhere

I eventually finished. The good news about the race is in the pictures above, it was beautiful, great weather, sea level, and.....well the only bad news really is that I did not beat my PR(personal record). The even worse news is that I should have, I trained way harder for this half than my last, it was at sea level, and at the end I didn't exhaust myself enough. My pace the hole time was good, but I didn't kick in soon enough at the end. I got done and felt too good. I missed my PR by like 30seconds. Live and learn. But........

I got an award for placing 4th in my division, this made me feel a little better. However the girl that placed 3rd finished 7seconds before me!!!!

But take a minute to look at this picture. This is a great picture because if you didn't know it
appears as if I finished right next to the Kenyan girl, when in reality she placed first and finished in a ridiculous amount of time ahead of me and everyone else there. Good picture to show your kids when your old and forgetful....

Neither one of us had ever been to the California coast

Very different sand than WA or OR coast

Adam cracks me up, all season long while I am training he makes fun of me, my running shorts my putting running before everything else, and then come finish time of a race, I don't beat my PR and lose third place by 7 seconds and he's all advice and motivation. He will deny it, but he said more than once that weekend, that he would like to run a half some day with me!

Our Early Thanksgiving

Last weekend we were able to fly to Wenatchee and see Adam's family. It was wonderful!

Our flight was suppose to get into Wenatchee around 1030AM, things got delayed and we were told the next flight we could take we get in at 11PM!!! So Adam worked some magic and we flew into Moses Lake, 1.5hrs from Wenatchee, with one other guy and got there around 1230PM. (there really was only one other guy on the plane, kinda fun!) I was kinda crabby that morning, not feeling too good, but luckily Adam whose always in a good mood, helped me feel better, that and we got $2 massages at the airport and I listened to Enter Sandman about 5 times. Anyway, the fam picked us up in Moses Lake and it was all fun and relaxation after that!

The first night was pizza at Janet and Lon's. It was really great to see everyone and hangout. The next days, we lounged around and played mini golf

This is our early Thanksgiving! Over 20 people at Gary and Margo's-it was great!

Adam and I came home with tons of Elk meat, salmon, guns and gifts from Alaska. We are very thankful we were able to make it. It was great to see the family and Gary and Margo before they leave on the 19th for Akutan.

Happy Halloween

Adam and I came up with a few ideas for a couples halloween costume:

Adam's: UFC Fighter & Ring Girl, 3 Legged race partners, A Plug-in and Socket

Chelsea's: Pebbels & Bam Bam, George and Judy Jetson, Flapper and a Mobster

Well we did not agree on any of the above, especially the UFC Fighter and Ring Girl, are you kidding!!!! Do you know what Ring Girls wear?!?! I said no to that idea. But Adam actually came up with a great one we both agreed on, but because of political reasons decided we better not. I was going to dress up as an INS agent and Adam was going to be an illegal immigrant. We thought it was hallarious, but Adam said it might offend people? So instead we were

THE SWINE FLU (AKA: H1N1)

You can't see our cute little tails but we dressed up as pigs! The whole outfit probably cost $10!
We made our own tails, noses and hoofs.

I don't really know this girl but she was at the halloween party too, dressed as the octa-mom, how funny is that! Also there was a chick magnet (he had barbies attached all over his body), a gynecologist, a fallen angel, a hippie, Big Bad Wolf and Little Red Ridding Hood, Waldo (as in Wheres Waldo) and then a bunch of your usuals.

My friends Kaylee and Laura went with the flapper thing, they looked so cute.

I wanted to randomly throw this in, the weekend before Halloween we went to Virginia City, this was a really beautiful historic Catholic church there. The inside was beautiful too but I didn't think it was appropriate to be snapping picuters, even though others were and they sold wine and jewlery inside the chapel. To each his own

Tea Party

While I was working nightshift for a few weeks we decided to have a tea party, so at 10pm we gathered up all the tea and treats that people had brought and celebrated......well nothing, but it was fun

We wore big hats and long bead necklaces. I worked earlier that day, but everyone else left their patients to come join in the fun..... the patients were all still alive when they returned, don't worry

PS: I made this hat myself, I was very proud

This may look like vomit but it was actually a really delicious tea straight from Poland