William's Run

Today I signed up for a 10k that I will run on Saturday! I was originally just going to run the 5k portion, but in convincing a friend to run with me, we both ended up deciding to do the 10k. She said she was too slow for a 5k so I suggested do the 10k... on Saturday at about 9:30am we'll see if this was the wrong decision. Ha! The run is to raise money for the Brain Tumor Foundation, so even more of a reason to want to get out there. I will say that I do enjoy supporting each of the causes that these races are held for!

I'm continuing my effort to get/stay in shape by running and doing these races keeps me motivated during the week to run.

So motivated in fact, that I convinced Ben that he wanted to run with me last night! He went a 1.5 miles before stopping, then informed me that we were walking back! Pretty good start for someone who hasn't run in a long time. :-) It was also nice to get out and get Kenya running with us.

So as Saturday approaches please pray that I make it through the 10k and can continue to stay encouraged to do them, especially as the weather gets colder! :-)

Apple Orchard

This weekend we were lucky enough to have Ben's little sister, Gabi, stay with us... so we thought what better thing to do than to go to an Apple Orchard! I've heard about them and wanted to experience it myself so we thought it'd be a lot of fun to take Gabi... so we did!

We also took some friends of ours, the Pina's. We all had a great time getting to know each other and being in the beautiful weather God provided for us this weekend!

Our first stop was the Smith House for lunch... the mix of Southern food and family style dining makes for a yummy meal! These pictures are outside of the historic restaurant.

After lunch to the Apple Orchard we went. This picture it taken right inside the store they have... soon we were surrounded by many apples!

You could cheat and buy already picked apples, but we picked our own!

This is the entrance to the orchard. It was a hilly orchard, but it came with great view or the surrounding town!

Each row of trees had a sign with the type of apples you could pick... so of course the Rome Beauty was our favorite.

Yummy apples!

Gabi picked all of our apples.

Of course there was a petting zoo...

And in the end we got to shop in the store for all things apple. I got my apple butter, we ate fried apple pies and drank cold apple cider! Yum! Now it's time to make yummy dishes with all our apples. :-)

Grandma came to town!

We had a really good time. We discovered new stores, ate lots of yummy food, and went sight seeing like we'd both never seen the city. Grandma's trip also coinsided with the gas shortage in Georgia, so a good part of her trip was spent wondering when we'd ever get gas. But I promised her that we'd go to the Aquarium, so I got up on Monday morning at 5am and scouted out gas!!

    

This is at the entrance of the Aquarium. Grandma loves to have her picture taken. :-)

  

The picture on the top is of the jelly fish... the Aquarium did a great job of putting them in a tank where people an really see how they work. The picture on the bottom is a seahorse who looks like the plants around him. Very neat!

And here's what the Aquarium is famous for... 1. the whale sharks and 2. the biggest viewing window. 

We also went to see the coke museum across the lawn, but managed to only come out with pictures from the taste testing room.

   

While my grandma took a break and hung out at a little cafe, I walked across the street to Centennial Olympic Park to look for my name! In the 1996 Olympics you could purchase a brick with your name on it and they put them down in the park. I had only seen it once, 12 years ago, so I thought it was time to find it again. I found out where to find the brick and off I went. Come to find out it was at the total opposite end of the park than where I started from. :-/

And that concludes our visit to the city. :-)