My parents visited this weekend through this morning! The purpose of the trip was for Mom to go with me to NeoCon, but we also celebrated Mom’s birthday, and Steven and Dad got a lot of projects done (I’ll cover all those in another post!).
Oh yes. And I did all the carb loading. I am ready for Saturday’s race. And a few more marathons. Oops.
*unfortunately, you should carb load three to two days in advance… not a week to five days, ha! And yeah, I know it’s “carbo” loading. I don’t like adding the “o”!
FRIDAY!
I taught Fitness Boxing on Friday night for the first time. I usually teach it Saturday or Sunday but I don’t have any free weekends this month, so Friday night it is! I’m glad we had a decent turn out for the different class date.
Mom and Dad got in to town shortly after my class ended and they drove with Steven to meet me at El Famous Burrito. I ordered everyone’s food since I got there first and had some funny stares with the table all set up, waiting a few minutes for them to arrive. No, this is NOT all for me!!!
SATURDAY!
Saturday was Mom’s birthday!
I started the day off with a short run with Dad while he rode his bike. Then I took Mom to see Book Club.
Not the best movie I’ve seen, by a long shot, but we had fun!
While we were at the movie, the boys started the projects. Here is a preview pic!
We rented that boom lift – we don’t have one!
We brought home subs for lunch, and ate with the boys, then had trifles for Mom’s birthday.
These were supposed to be a cake, but it got hella effed up, so we salvaged it in to trifles. And it was amazingly delicious.
The boys got back to work after lunch and Mom and I screwed around for an hour laughing about a race where you run with a “hobby horse,” then eventually we signed me up because it’s so ridiculous (more details on that later!).
We ran errands and shopped that afternoon (while the boys kept working), then came home and made lasagna (and cornbread and broccoli!) for Mom’s birthday dinner! Seriously. ALL THE CARBS.
Vegan lasagna base, one side with vegan cheese, one side with regular cheese
And yes, we ate more cake after that!
SUNDAY!
On Sunday Dad and I went on an even shorter run/bike (sigh, taper) than the day before. We wanted to both ride, but it was raining on and off all morning and not safe for me to ride my road bike in that, nor for either of us to be out in the fog and potential thunderstorms! Wah.
So we had a chill morning of chatting, which was nice! Mom and I made a return and got some groceries, then made sandwiches for lunch and hung out a bit before visiting the lake.
Mom and I hung out at the house after the lake visit, and when the boys were done working, we went out for dinner at The Shanty. We called it a night shortly thereafter since we were off early to NeoCon on Monday!
MONDAY!
Mom and I spent most of Monday in the city at NeoCon. I unfortunately started the day feeling beat and was completely exhausted by the end of it and not very much fun after we finished at NeoCon. Sigh. I’m not good at being social and around people for all of my waking hours, even when it’s people whose company I love and enjoy. I’m drained.
We made tacos for dinner, and had fun sharing stories from our days. Then Mom and I made vegan chocolate and caramel cups, which my snister surprised me with the materials and caramel to make! Yum!
TUESDAY!
Dad rode with me one last time Tuesday morning. I’ll miss his company – for the conversation and for making me feel like I can run faster (my legs felt so heavy today despite a “rest” day yesterday).
Steven picked up donuts and vegan muffins so we ate those then Mom and Dad hit the road late in the morning.
As always we had a fun visit and really appreciate their help with things when they’re here! Now, why do I feel exhausted even though I wasn’t the one working on projects all weekend? (Seriously though, I’ve been so tired the past few days I feel like I could fall asleep, or snap, at any moment – not good!)
OMG I want many pictures from that race..where are you going to even find a hobby horse to run with?
Those caramel cups look yummy!!
I will have lots of pics! Did you see they are going for the world record of the most “hobby horses” at a race? We have special gallop zones and other rules for the horse design. DYING. My mom is going to make it for me! We already figured out how we want it to look.
They were!
Wow, your mom is only 4 years older than me? It’s funny how you can have friends of all ages now – I don’t think that was much the case generations ago. What a fun weekend, but I can see how you’d be so tired between going all the time and being on your feet at Neocon.
Also, I would have paid you to go around the table, sitting in each chair, and take bites from each plate, just to mess with the other diners there. 🙂
That hobby horse race sounds like it will be a crazy amount of fun!
She is! I bet it wasn’t the case generations ago, too! You stuck with your people and there was probably a lot more generational judgement (although there is still a lot of that, ha). Most of my friends are older than me! Some by a couple of years and some by a decade or two!
Ha! That would have been awesome. I wonder if my family would have laughed at that!
Right? Gawd, it’s so silly.
So fascinated by this hobby horse running. I lol’ed at must run with a hobby horse between your legs. Let me know when you are going to practice with your hobby horse because I’ll come along and you must practice your galluping!
Ha ha ha ha ha. Isn’t that part funny? Gah, my mom is the one encouraging me to do this and signing up then immediately after she’s like “I am worried you are going to trip!” Ha.
I will! I will definitely need to practice. And definitely in public!!!
So much delicious carbo-loading! I love that you turned the cake into trifle. It’s such a good idea and so much fun to eat (no pressure! Just eat it by the spoonful!).
Did you get any good swag from Neocon?
Those caramel cups look so good. I want to make them when we’re together next!
Yeah! It was really fun to eat! And not knowing what your bite would include (cake? pudding? frosting? all three?) was fun. So tasty.
I did! I gave most of it to my mom to give my snis (bags, stuffed animals, model scale desk chair). I kept a HUGE bag that I can put our pillows in when we travel. And I love the caricature we had done.
YES!!! And PB ones too?!?!?!?
Just catching up on all you’ve been up to! Great times with your Mom and Dad, although that event does sound exhausting – glad your mom could go with you to make it more fun for you.
And carb loading is definitely one of the best things about training for a long race distance…
I am very curious to hear about the hobby horse race… 😉
I am glad too – she does make it a lot more fun! Since my coworkers and I go each year, not much has changed (it seems, to us) but it all still seems fresh to mom.
Isn’t it though? Looking forward to having more pasta tonight!
I need to schedule (and write!) a post about it. It just sounds HILARIOUS.
I firmly believe that carb loading (I call it carb loading, too, not carbo loading – I think that sounds dumb, haha) should start at least six days before a marathon, so you’re basically fine carb loading the weekend before as far as I’m concerned 😛
YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. I appreciate your support in both when I stared AND not calling it the dumber sounding name, ha!