Remember the last time I ran a Disney 5k and talked on and on about it? Today, I went in knowing what to expect.
Wendy, Marty, and I walked the whole course and had a great time doing it. We exchanged stories. They told me about the time they shot their Jenny Craig commercial. (Cool, huh?)
We talked and laughed (and I totally hammed it up every time I saw a camera).
It was super chill and barely even felt like a 5k. I thought, “What are these water stations doing here on my morning walk? How lovely.”)
Before you knew it, we were at the finish line!
There was a regular smorgasbord of food at the end. The race was giving out bottles of Powerade (full bottles, people). There were bananas, fruit snacks, pre-packed snack boxes with humus, crackers, chocolate, and more.
When we returned home, Becky (Marty’s mom) was sitting at the table and said “I saw your video!” (A teacher in a music production class I’d been taking put forth a challenge (for extra credit) to learn that dance. Challenge accepted.) We all had a big laugh, and I felt special someone was looking me up and enjoying my dancing silliness.
Becky is such a sweetheart. She’s pretty much my new best friend. Get this – later in the day, at a lull in conversation, she started reading my blog out loud! I’m pretty sure she should do an audio version, because she reads it with awesome inflection. She makes every little detail sound interesting.
She subscribed to my blog today. Woot, woot. My popularity is slowly but surely spreading around central Orlando (or possibly just this rental house…)
One of the members of our super fun group went home today. (Sad face.) Before we took Barbara (Marty’s aunt) to the airport, we all got on the subject of Planet Smoothie (my very favorite place of sustenance in the entire world).
Marty, being a genius, said we should go. I didn’t even think about the fact that Planet Smoothies might exist in Orlando.
Nobody freak out, but there was a Planet Smoothie only three short miles away from the airport!
By the time we had finished the greatest smoothies known to mankind, we were at Downtown Disney. We explored for a while (and tried some delicious vegan treats at Babycakes). After we’d walked the whole Pleasure Island loop, it was time to come home for another round of Cranium.
Since Barbara had left, we had to even out the teams. Becky was a wonderful partner. She’s quite smart (and does a really cute charades chicken). But, I don’t know in what universe we thought Wendy and Marty should be on the same team. They’ve been married for 13 years. They have telepathic powers!
Needless to say, Becky and I lost. (Sigh) Even still, it was a fun game. (And we are coming for them next time!)
Now it’s time for bed. At 4am, it’ll be time to wake up for our next half marathon. I can’t wait to tell you all about it tomorrow!