Victoria Marathon - 34th Annual!

Yesterday the weather was perfect for a marathon.  The participants run down Beach Drive, just one block behind our house.  They actually turn around further down Beach Drive, so we have the opportunity to see them twice.   There are three distances in the Marathon as well as a Kid's Run.  There were nearly 12,000 people participating.

Just down the street, outside of Glenlyon Norfolk School was a refresh station, complete with live music.

Janet tried in desperation to catch an actually runner, but always missed them.  This was the best shot she could get.

The music.

Right beside GNS.

Janet missed the leaders the first time down Beach Drive, but caught them on the return.  They are escorted by Police officers on motorbikes and a truck with a timer on top.

The leaders.

Lean, mean running machines.  All Kenyans, that live in various parts of the world.  One is based in Lethbridge!   Apparently running marathons is where it's at as most people were as slim as could be.  See our garage door in the background?

Mr. Baby makes Janet really nervous, but not so Phil.  He holds onto Mr. Baby with ease with one hand.  This also makes Janet nervous.  Janet was really worried when he was newborn and now she's nervous because he wriggles a lot.

Janet told Meg that Seinfield says only people who have given up wear sweat pants, but Meg says that doesn't apply to babies.

Meg is busy eating and Noodles is determined to give her a hand.

Meg and Janet went for a bike ride and snapped a photo of each other, snapping a photo!

Phil is still kind of sickish.  One day when he was more sickish, Janet went outside and did some yard work and put away a real estate sign that Phil left propped up against the gate.  He more times than not leaves signs there.  Janet, thinking she is doing everyone a favour, put the sign in the garage.  A few minutes later, Phil comes stomping into the house and shouts out "WHERE IS MY SIGN?"  Janet calmly advises she put it in the garage, where it belongs.  Wisely, she omitted "the where it belongs part".  Janet has the temerity to ask how she is supposed to differentiate between the signs he has just dumped there because he is too lazy to go to the garage and the ones he has just removed from the garage.

STOMP, STOMP, SLAM.  Now he has gone back outside.  He STOMPS back in a few minutes later  and SHOUTS out "SORRY".  It was so kind and heartfelt Janet was moved to tears asking herself WTF!

He says he has been way more diligent about putting them in the garage, but Janet asked him point blank what planet he had been living on.