balti-less.
the summer before my junior year of high school, i ran like crazy trying to get my miles in for what was supposed to be our team's year at state. we had some fast guys coming back, and we knew if we could bring everyone's level up a notch we could compete at the state cross country meet. day one of practice in the fall, one of our runners described his summer running as: "well, i didn't really run that much but i walked a lot." i knew we were screwed.
well, i walked a lot this past week. i hope this doesn't hurt me too much, but my training was less than optimal. i have no excuse, so i'll move on.
baltimore could possibly be the arm pit of the east coast. not to say i didn't have fun, quite the contrary. but it's not a place i would take children. and i would not recommend walking anywhere after 10pm.
robin and i spent 2 days in washington dc. the mood of that was somber. the memorials do a good job of putting life into perspective. we were on the walter reed medical campus for a museum visit and that was a little depressing as well. you'd think with the billions upon billions we spend on war that maybe we could chip off a billion or 2 for our wounded troops/veterans. i guess not so much.
highlights: seeing the president's motorcade, the world war 2 memorial, arlington cemetary, the nationals game, crab cakes in baltimore, and sleeping in.
more later i'm sure, this post in no way can sum up a week's worth of adventures. but i'll say i'm happy to be home, but not as happy as oliver was to see us this morning....
oh yea, and everytime we go on vacation one of our friends has a baby. congrats to mark and lisa, what a cute little baby!
well, i walked a lot this past week. i hope this doesn't hurt me too much, but my training was less than optimal. i have no excuse, so i'll move on.
baltimore could possibly be the arm pit of the east coast. not to say i didn't have fun, quite the contrary. but it's not a place i would take children. and i would not recommend walking anywhere after 10pm.
robin and i spent 2 days in washington dc. the mood of that was somber. the memorials do a good job of putting life into perspective. we were on the walter reed medical campus for a museum visit and that was a little depressing as well. you'd think with the billions upon billions we spend on war that maybe we could chip off a billion or 2 for our wounded troops/veterans. i guess not so much.
highlights: seeing the president's motorcade, the world war 2 memorial, arlington cemetary, the nationals game, crab cakes in baltimore, and sleeping in.
more later i'm sure, this post in no way can sum up a week's worth of adventures. but i'll say i'm happy to be home, but not as happy as oliver was to see us this morning....
oh yea, and everytime we go on vacation one of our friends has a baby. congrats to mark and lisa, what a cute little baby!
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