RE: How was your fourth? (Tory)

July 6, 2004

Wow Tory!

Thanks for sharing about your fourth.

I think I'll live life vicariously through you for awhile!!

:-)

in CO

How was your fourth?

So how was your fourth? Ours was very nice. Since we have to work later

into

the summer, we've really been trying to make the most of our weekends

and

evenings.

Saturday morning I had planned to meet some people in my marathon group

for

a six mile run. We didn't have an official meeting that day due to the

holiday. I met two men and a woman. Roy ran with us for half the length

then

went back, and the lady is a walker so she walked with her dog. I paced

slow

with a guy named once Roy turned around and had a nice visit.

After

the run Roy and I hopped on our bikes and rode from Ballard to the UW.

We

poked around the University Village (nice outdoor mall very similar to

The

Grove in LA) and had lunch, then biked back. Since we had planned to run

a

race that evening we decided to get a hotel in Seattle and make a

weekend of

it.

We had a nice afternoon. Saw the movie " The Terminal " which is very very

good. Tom Hanks...can't beat him. He was great. Then we checked into our

hotel and rested up for our race. It was Seattle's only midnight run. It

started at 11:55 p.m. on Mercer Street, right near the Seattle Center,

and

ended at the International Fountain. It was DARK, but we had a good

time. I

ran in 27 minutes and Roy came in about 32. Considering how much we

ran/biked during the day, those were decent times (for us slowbees).

The fourth we decided that since we had our bikes we'd park our car in

free

parking and bike around town instead of walking or driving. What a way

to

go! We got around so much faster than if we'd had a car. Traffic was

horrible. We tooled all over downtown Seattle, did some window shopping,

spent a LOT of time in the Elliot Bay Bookstore, and visited the sites

at

the Fourth of Jul-Ivars celebration. Lots of live music and food (we

stuck

to corn on the cob, sans butter). On the way back to our hotel we

stopped

and picked up deli sandwiches and fruit for a picnic. We watched the

fireworks over Lake Union and Elliot Bay from the top of the Space

Needle.

That was REALLY neat! What a view!

Tomorrow it's back to work, but today we met Kendra and her kids for a

movie

(Spiderman 2) then Roy and I went to Twin Lakes where I tried an open

water

swim for the first time in my very BRIGHT blue and pink wetsuit! My

first

triathlon is on Sunday so it was time to get into the " big " water and

make

sure I'm not going to drown on the first leg. After the swim (Roy stood

on

shore ready to jump in if I needed help...I was fine.) we hopped on our

bikes and did a half hour hard ride, then ran about a mile and a half

around

the lake. Tonight I am TIRED! Can't imagine why?

We have two more weeks of school. I'm really looking forward to being

out.

We've got our weekends booked, though...next weekend is the triathlon

(although we do have school on Saturday, which is a bummer). The

following

weekend, two concerts. The weekend after that, two more concerts...then

off

to Norway!

So how was your fourth?

~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'

Tory Klementsen, MCP A+

Career and Technology Educator

www.teechur.com

www.msteechur.com

-The successful person will do the things that the unsuccessful person

will

not.

July 6, 2004