Cute Alexis returned from Singapore and brought her parents to see America. They had just arrived the day before and were still suffering from jet lag, especially after having been on their feet all day walking around DC. We served a very American dinner: Pulled pork sandwiches, corn on the cob, watermelon, potato salad and strawberry shortcake for dessert. Both speak very good english and were delightful to be around. Brought us a beautiful coin set from Singapore, a book and some fun food items to try.
Thursday night we went to do our first open water swim for Tri training this season. It's a little unnerving and both Tom and I felt a little off in our swim in the Potomac.
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| Rick, Kelly, Tom, Me and Jason |
The swim takes place at twilight at National Harbor and a few of the others from the group met us there.
Friday night I packed a dinner and met Tom by the Navy Yards for the free concert. We had our picnic and enjoyed the music before walking along the waterfront then moving up front to watch everyone dance. Great band and fun night!
Saturday morning we metro'd out early to meet the Tri group in Columbia Heights.
We rode to Rock Creek Park to do rep runs up and down a steep hill. I was really struggling all day. Just felt really tired. HYDRATE! It's a several mile ride to get there, then the hills, then we take some rolling hills back into the city. Even though it's really hard it is so beautiful and the rolling hills are so fun, it is totally worth the pain!
Some of us went to Panera to grab some breakfast after the ride to relax, refuel and just chat.
Sunday we had some new people working with us at the Connections Table. They were great!
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| Kelsey and Charlie |
Tuesday night Kristen braved the pouring rain to come over. She wanted to cook for us and as she is gluten free and we're still trying to vegan it she offered to make tofu pad thai for us. She brought everything including her very cool spiral veggie slicer which I'd heard about but never seen. We made zucchini noodles to add to the pad thai noodles and they were awesome! I have to get one of those!
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