Days 504 & 505

After a day of chores, I got to cutting my squares for my next project

Day 503

Today Josh and I took a drive to look for some aqueducts someone in the expat group told me about.

But we found out that they were in a gated community, so we drove around the tiny neighborhood that is really a little town that got swollowed up. So we got to see the rest of the aqueduct system

This ran through the middle of the whole town, it was really cool.

Days 501 & 502

I got a little quilting in before we went to our first child's birthday party

There were lots and lots of treats

An adorable birthday girl

A piñata , of course!

More treats

There was also a fully catered and they also had a bouncy house,

It was a fun day with friends.

Days 500

Mr climbed a tree today!

Day 499

I woke up in the middle of the night to this

Isn't he so adorable? Sharing my pillow,

But later that day I found him breaking into the cupboard by the door

He then went inside And the door latched and he couldn't get himself back out, good thing I was home.

My friend brought me something from China, to replace the braclet I broke... It's different than the one I got when I was in China, but I like it.

And I was so inspired that I got back to quilting my client quilt!

Day 498

I free motion quilted again! It's so easy! And I tried out a new method so I didn't have to do binding.

And I need to get these quilts by tomorrow, because my friend is coming over! But the power went out!

So I got a chance to read.

And the power came back on! 

And I finished the doll quilts! My machine was having a bit of trouble with tension in the end, but they turned out ok!

Day 497

Now that the race is over it's time to get ready for vacation! 

Time to break in my new hiking boots! And so far I love them!

I also sewed some 9-patches for the doll quilts for my friends new daughters.

Day 496

The big day has arrived!

To run the 1/2 marathon, I woke up so nervous, and we headed out early to get ready for the race. We used the port a potties and lined up.

we were well protected as the guards armed with AK-47s stood atop most of the government buildings surrounding the start.

I was pretty happy at the beginning, this is just after the start line

I had done some research on the course, but hadn't driven or walked it, as we do not go to this end of town much. after the first relativley flat mile, as you can see fromthe picture below, the next 6K were straight up a mountain... over 500 feet of elevation gain...

at the top of the mountain I go passed by a couple women dressed similar to this lady, who is in a traditional mexican style dress and if you notice sandals! I also got passed by a monk... running in full dress and sandals as well... 

then after we ran back down most of the mountain, we got to run through beautiful downtown. I wanted the picture below pretty badly, i told Josh where to stand and thankfully I saw him as I was running up so I could dodge across the street so I would be in the picture :D

then we ran around the alemeda downtown (a park), and down a hill, and back up for 5K and finally back onto some flat road! just in time to come in for the finish, I was pretty exhausted by then I almost cried up the last 5K because I wanted it to be over...

and finally it was, I finished and chugged some water, and felt like dying, I couldn't find my friends and really wanted to use a potty again, my stomach hurt so bad, but really not until I stopped running, it didn't hurt at all while i was running.

so finally we found my friends, and we stopped to take this picture,I was still dying in this picture

Josh drove me home, and then I took a good 2 hour nap, and finally felt better! So I went to the sign to get my picture, like I had wanted to do after I finished my race, but there was no way I could have made it!

and then we ate tacos. 

The end.