I have been to a lot of donut and dessert places around the valley and this is the BEST glaze donut I have had.
The donut is quite large as well. When I’m down south I will stop by again!
Oh, Hobby Lobby I can’t bring home all the scarecrows.
I decorated a bulletin board for Eli’s school. I wanted something different and came up with the 3-D butterflies. I think they fun!
Since school has started our schedule has been busy and I have been having a hard time keeping track of Eli’s singing and swimming lessons. The next morning I looked at my planner and found a note from him 🙂
Want a delicious cinnamon roll? Here it is!
While we were waiting for our order they gave out free cinnamon rolls. They were delicious. Thinking about them as I type I need to go back and get one. Hmm…are they open at this time of night? 🙂
This has to be the 2nd worst marathon I have run. The first was the Las Vegas half. I don’t think any marathon will beat that one.
The day started out pretty rough. I was up at 1:15 am and couldn’t get back to sleep. When my alarm went off at 2:40 am I was starving! While Paul was making my smoothie I grabbed a granola bar. Paul handed me a banana and said the granola bar was a bad idea. I told him I was so hungry I think I will be fine.
3:10 am I left and went to mom and dad’s house to meet up with Ferelyn and Court.
4:10am we arrived at the buses. I was so tired. I was fighting sleep on the bus.
5:30am we arrived at the top of Payson canyon. Having an hour to shiver I sipped my smoothie while standing in line for the porta potties. 20 minutes before the race started I left the line and dropped my bag on the bus and got back in line. A minute after I got in line I realized I dropped my awake drug. I left it in my bag! I ran back to the bus. They let me on the bus and told me good luck finding my bag among the other 500 blue bags.
Tears, a short prayer, and 10 minutes later I found my bag! I ran back to the porta potties. While I was in the potty the horn sounded. The race began! Oh, well. Good thing for the chip and my time doesn’t start until I cross the start line.
6:40am. I let the hills take me down. So far so good until mile 4. My stomach was so heavy. I kept running. Mile 5 my stomach was hurting! I will NEVER eat a granola bar again before a marathon.
Mile 8 I was looking for a place to throw up my breakfast. I pulled off the road and into the bushes. I was able to throw up a little, but as it was coming out the top, it wanted to come out the end 🙂 So, for the last 4 miles it was a little spicy down there, ha!
Mile 9 I stopped to throw up again, but there were too many people around so I kept going.
Mile 12 I ran past several residential garbage cans and I was so nauseous I was going to use one of them. I decided to just walk the last mile.
2 hours and 9 minutes. I am so disappointed. I told Paul I wanted him to drive me back up the mountain next Saturday and I was going to run it again. I didn’t get a chance to enjoy the mountain scenery, the cool morning, or the sunrise. I was only thinking of my heavy, nauseous stomach. So disappointed. I was looking forward with a time under 2 hours!
A couple of years ago we went to Nacho Daddy in Las Vegas and we couldn’t remember what we ordered, but this was not it. Eli’s face sums up what it tasted like as well. We didn’t enjoy it at all. It was very dry and VERY spicy. The waitress confirmed it wasn’t spicy when we ordered, but she was wrong.
For dessert we ordered apple nachos. We have had this before and it didn’t disappoint. When we need something sweet, we will be back for this!
This wasn’t a very enjoyable Monday lunch and not just because of the food. This will be my last Monday luncheon and not just because school has started. The Monday luncheons have been fun and I enjoyed EVERY Monday.
Eli said he is going to miss these lunches and so will I, so Eli and I will have to come up with some sort of lunch together and start our own tradition.
We started out our ride by stopping at the gas station that makes their own donuts. Paul chose one that was longer than his arm…
Eli chose ice cream 🙂
And I chose the best one 🙂 Blueberry with cream cheese icing.
We took a left to see Lambert Meadow. We drove for several miles and came to a dry river bed. The terrain wasn’t terrible rocky, but a little more than I like. I drove across it and a mile later we decided to turn around.
On the way back Eli wanted to drive and asked to switch. I told him after we cross the riverbed he could drive. He asked again. He said, “Mom, I want to be a good driver, please let me drive.” What? My little boy is right. How is he going to learn unless he drives? So we switched.
On the way back we took the other road to Alexander Lake. Eli drove quite a bit and he did a great job driving. He is becoming a great driver!
Alexander Lake.
We walked to the lake and we found several dragonflies. These dragonflies were HUGE and they were flying around and being very curious about us.
Our crazy boy! 🙂
Beautiful dragonflies with vibrant colors.
This was the only flower we saw on our ride.
Lunch! We freeze dried chicken a few days ago. When we came to the lake, Paul heated water and rehydrated the chicken. Add avocado and Paul had a warm chicken sandwich. He said it was very tasty.
Ready to head back down, but first we explored the area and found a camping site a little further in we are going to use next year.
This was a really fun ride. The roads were nice and easy to ride on.
On the way back down we had to race the weather. We almost made it down and it poured rain. We were soaked. We made it to the truck right in time and it started to hail! This was a fun drive and I’m glad we took time to come up here.
