Athen's Marathon

This was the end of the 10K. I thought I was going to puke in the Original Olympic Stadium, seriously! I was exhausted!

Ancient Olympic Stadium. It was huge and the entire thing is marble. Absolutely gorgeous!

Oddly Similar, In a good way, of course

They have the same disposition.

24 Hour Vacation

First of all, its rare that you see Mark and I kiss. .... should do that more often. I threw that pic in for grins.
On Saturday morning we got up, both worked out and then headed to El Paso.
We went to the mall and spent less than an hour. We each got a pair of shoes and I got two new pair of jeans to go with the awesome boots I found on sale Thursday. More about the awesome boots in a separate blog.
From the mall we went to the movie theater. After the movie we checked into a brand new, Courtyard Marriott (it was free,used reward points), took a short nap and headed to dinner. After a fun dinner we went to the late movie. We went back to the heavenly bed at the Marriott, and read until we fell asleep. We woke up, went to the gym, sat in the hot tub, ate a great breakfast and were at the movie theater by 11:20 a.m. As soon as that movie finished we drove 40 miles to Las Cruces to meet Kristin and Joey at, yes, the movie theater! After a short visit, Kristin and Joey went to a BBQ and Mark and I had a quick dinner and drove home.

We had such a nice 24 hour vacation, we laughed and held hands and thoroughly enjoyed each others company. We used to do more things like this. I wonder how we got away from it?
We've decided that we are going to have a few more outings, just the two of us. Carlsbad Caverns is on the list, the Zuni Cliff dwellings in Silver City, somewhere hiking and definitely another trip to El Paso.
We spend a lot of time alone and we have a great home but there's just something about being away, the undivided attention, just for one day, that serves as a good reminder of why you love the one your with.
I highly recommend it!

he loves to be held like this, lol

Tastes Changing?

Thanksgiving at Grandma's will be interesting.

Dad

Dad getting a trim after cataract surgery. The plastic was to keep hair from getting into his eyes.

Dad was almost like the man on the horse after his surgeries..Arms up, celebrating triumphantly! He is seeing so much more than he had been. After getting the second surgery done, he wanted to read EVERYTHING, just to practice.
We hadn't spent much time together in quite a while and really enjoyed each others company over the past few weeks. Mark has been in Korea and Jeffery is a teenager so it was just he and I most of the time. Nice to be together.

Surprise!

So, I'm doing dishes and I look out the window and think to my to myself, "is that a watermelon"? I dried my hands and walked outside to the edge of the lawn and YES, it is a watermelon! And YES, it was this big the first time I saw it.
I have thrown a watermelon into the desert instead of the trash, to see if the animals would eat it. I never realized it would grow. I guess we got just enough rain this year.
Dad convinced me to pick it. I don't know if it was quite ready or not but I picked it and cut it open. It tasted just okay and had TONS of seeds. I threw the seeds back out into the desert. Lets see what happens????