Showing posts with label Saturday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saturday. Show all posts

Friday, April 24, 2009

Fun Run


Each year Colegio Maya has a Fun Run for the whole family. The school is K-12 (about 340 kids). Last year we all participated and had a great time. Brice was in the lead for his age group the whole time but stopped to get a drink of Gatorade and came in second. Kierstin, like always just wanted to have fun and told me she skipped (as in -to-my-Lou) the majority of the 3K race. She came in third without even trying. This year, the kids were bound and determined to get another trophy, especially the always competitive Brinley.

Brice and Kierstin-set loose to run as fast or as slow as they wanted. Even though Brice was one of the youngest in his age group, he placed third.

Blaine ran with Brinley. She started the race in tears because so many people came out of the starting block before her but quickly recovered. She had to slow down a few times to let Daddy catch up to her and would not let anyone pass her. She came in right after the 1st place male winner in her age group but strangely did not win. She was upset all day long because she did not have a trophy to bring home. Brice said she could have his but it just wasn't the same.

Luke started off in the stroller with me but quickly realized he wanted out and ran the majority of the race.

Monday at school, Brinley was presented with a package. It contained a nice note, a lot of candy and her trophy! Apparently they timed the kids in strollers on accident and not those who actually ran. She was so pleased she earned a trophy.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Safari Chapina


One Saturday in March we headed to Esquintla to go to a drive-thru safari. I love being able to sit in my air conditioned car and see the animals up close. As always, we were cultured as we drove though the highlands of Guatemala to get there. The grounds were surprisingly beautiful and there were more animals than I was expecting. Our favorites were the monkeys, hippos and the lions. Mind you, there were no guidelines about feeding the animals, keeping your windows rolled up or even getting out of your car. I tried to have Brice stand by the hippo so we would remember how fat it was but I was over-ruled. The lions were lazily laying around when we got to them but the lioness did not like our continuous growling. She was sizing up Luke's head by the time we were ready to leave. As we were leaving the park, Blaine let each of the kids take a turn on his lap driving the car. I think that was their favorite part of our Saturday outing.