San Francisco!!

So this post is overdue but here it is. We had a lot of fun on our trip to San Francisco. We went to Alcatraz and to the Body Worlds II exhibit, which was amazing, and of course the Nike Women's Run Like a Girl marathon! Leslie and I ran the half marathon and more pictures will be coming but we forgot our camera so Leslie still has to email them to me:) Our goal was to run the whole time and to finish around 2:15 which wasn't too far off from our official time of 2h 18m 21s. There were a lot of hills and it was actually easiest to run up them. The hard parts of the run for me were the flat parts. There were 23,000 people signed up to run this race so it was extremely crowded. We started at Union Square and ran down along the piers through Presidio and ended up at the ocean. The last curve as we came down the coast was soooo pretty. The beach was practically empty and the waves were rolling in and I loved it! Of course it helped to know that we were almost done. They had something to hand out at most of the

mile markers but the best was the Ghiradelli Chocolate mile. I didn't eat them right away but they were very good after the race. The run was for Leukemia and they raised over 18.5 million dollars! It was fun running in a mostly all girls race. The only annoying part about it was how congested and hard to get started it was for the first 3 miles! After we were done some news channel asked if they could interview us and some other girl that was standing by us. I don't think they liked our answers! Of course they did ask us what the "hardest part of the run was." I was thinking about it and didn't know what to say, and Leslie said, "the most annoying part was the first 3 miles because we couldn't get going." The news lady just stared at us. I think she was looking for "the hill at mile 9" or something like that. Then she said, well you look happy, how do you feel? And we said, "happy". She just stared at us again and then turned to the girl next to us who gushed about what a wonderful race this was and what a great opportunity to be able to run for such a good cause and thanks for all the volunteers along the way.....I don't think they aired our part! We weren't exactly camera material. I had no idea what to say or do. I was like a deer in the headlights. Leslie and I had a good laugh afterwords. I missed my kids terribly and probably won't leave them again for a while! I almost forgot about the finish line surprise! As we crossed the finish line we were handed a little blue Tiffany's box, yes that's right we got Tiffany's necklaces. SWEET!

Jeff and I on Alcatraz Island