Saturday Blues

What a lousy day it was on Saturday, the weather I mean. We have been spoiled with the beautiful weather so far in April and this rain was a real bummer, even though we needed it.
Saturday was a big 10k for Ashley and Nicole. Our neighbor Dina also ran the race but she was running the half marathon. Our friend Kyle Snyder was also running (Brent's older brother).
The girls left at 7:00 a.m. and it rained during their entire race. They still ran a good time, just over 60 minutes, officially Ashley won by 1/10 of a second. They each ran a 10:06 mile pace.
Dina ran the 13.1 mile race at a 9:37/mile pace.
Kyle finished 12 out of over 1000 men running at 6:30 mile/pace.

After Nicole and Ashley finished they had to wait about 1 hour for Dina to finish and they froze to death in the cold/rain. When they got home they were both shivering. After hot showers I came downstairs to find them both sleeping on the couch.

While they were running I was attending a tree trimming seminar in the rain for over an hour. We hired St. Croix Tree Service to come to Troy Burne to teach homeowner's how to prune their own trees. We had 5 people show up and all of them except one were our golf buddies. It was quite boring in my opinion, but I learned a few things.

After racing and pruning, Ashley went home and Nicole and I headed to campus to celebrate my brother Andrew's 22nd b-day. We ate at Annie's and there were 8 of us. Ryan, Kari, Carlyn, and Ethan, Andy, Mom, Nicole and I. The burgers and fries/onion rings at Annie's are very good, but I have to say Barker's burgers are better. It was nice to get back to campus and it was a HOPPING place with Spring Jam going on. There was a lot of drunkenness on the streets in Dinkeytown and we got there at 5:30 p.m. I can only imagine what it got like later. This year there was an outdoor concert at Coffman that Andrew and his friends were attending. Oh to be young again!
Happy B-Day Bro, we love ya!