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| My friend Lisa and I. We stopped to have breakfast with her along the way. |
Alright, very early Friday morning Karen and I set out for Orlando. It was raining and very messy, so we decided to just take it easy trying to get down there. I drove for the first little while, and as soon as Karen took the wheel the skies cleared up. We stopped and switched drivers and guess what happened? The rain was back, it was thoroughly amusing, I think the rain knew I was driving because this continued for a better part of the drive down, I am sure it meant that I wasn't meant to drive that leg of the trip. We stopped along the route to meet a friend who moved away and lived on the way. Have you ever had pancakes from Cracker Barrel? I did for the first time when we stopped to have breakfast with Lisa. Oh my goodness, apparently I have been living under a rock because they were AWESOME! In case you hadn't noticed, pancakes, cupcakes, most things with the word cake in them make me pretty darn happy. Anyways, we said our goodbyes and were back on the road. Before we knew it, we were in Orlando, at our hotel and getting ready to head out to the Fit For A Princess Expo.
We got there later in the afternoon, and the expo was absolute chaos but happy chaos. I was definitely overwhelmed and over stimulated. I spent some money but surprisingly enough, I didn't make it rain like I thought I would. I wish I had come up with a solid game plan for tackling the expo, but we hopped around everywhere. Let me tell you what my most favorite part of the entire expo was... are you ready for it? THE MASSAGE! I had never ever had a massage until I had my legs worked on at the expo, and it was fabulous. Actually, I was a little bummed because I only paid for 10 minutes, and I could have used the 25 minute option. Where had massages been all my life? Why did it take me this long to get one?
After the madness of the expo, we headed out to find some dinner. Mind you, K and I are still wearing the tees we wore to the expo. Hers said Bionic Babe (because she really is bionic), and mine said The Incredible Shrinking Woman. You should have seen the looks we got when we walked in and out of the Uno's restaurant, it was thoroughly amusing. During dinner, I had to fight the urge to have a drink, I had held out (since the beginning of January) so long that waiting a few more days wasn't going to kill me. As soon as we got back to the hotel, we CRASHED, the excitement from the night before and the drive just did us in. You can see this post for pics from the Expo.
3 comments:
I ate at Cracker Barrel once. It seems like the ultimate in comfort food!
Okay - so I feel kind of lost? Is that the right word? We looked forward to that race for sooo long and now that it is done I feel sad. I had SO MUCH FUN!! I don't want it to be over. And I loved how there was so much Princess texting going on with everybody going in and out of the same places and running into each other!
I guess now I should get focused on the next race. But it's not going to be the same. :(
RR- I feel the same way. We expected to feel like that a little so Karen and I had something planned for everyday this week to keep us busy. Although, yesterday was the worst, I felt really off and kind of sad especially thinking that a week earlier we were headed to Florida. The good thing is that we will have other Disney races to get excited about. I don't know if my brain is working properly because I am considering another half on the 20th of this month... am I insane?
Well, I have to say no, you aren't! Next Sunday I have a 15K, then a month late another half. Then 2 or 3 weeks after that ... another half!
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