Doppelganger??

A few weeks ago I was on a solo flight back to Salt Lake City and I had the joy and the pleasure of sitting next to a fifty something lady named Patrice.  She really set the mood right away by asking me my name shaking my hand 3-4 times and then it happened... she turned to the guy next to us and said this verbatim "Doesn't she look like a gringo version of Beyonce Knowles."  I'd thought I heard it all, turns out I haven't.  I mean I've always thought Beyonce and I had a lot of similarities: Curvy bodies, similar skin tones, long brown hair, great singing voices, married to a famous rapper.... NOT.

Check us out side by side.  Doppelganger?

Probably the weirdest/funniest thing I've heard in my life.  I think Patrice was a little drunk on that flight. She did ask me for a ride home when we taxied into the flight gate...but I'll take it! BEYONCE OR BUST!

Celebration of A Nation

Last weekend for the 4th of July I went to California with Kimberlee, Jane and Maggie to visit Kristine.  I was also able to see some of my family out there.  We had a very successful weekend! It all started with this...

That's right people it's Buffalo Bill's... You know that weird hotel about 30 miles outside of Vegas that suddenly shows up out of no where.  We stayed in the Big Red Barn for a night.

As soon as we got to California we went straight to the beach:

You may be wondering who the amazingly cute kids are in these photos.  Those are Jane's and Kristine's Nieces and Nephews.  Such a cute family.

The next day I spent the day with my Grandma and Aunt and Uncle.  Later that night met back up with the girls and went to a fire work show on Huntington Beach:

Kimberlee got hit in the head with a comet...

So glad we could visit this girl! She's the BEST...

Who doesn't love a good pyramid? 

Wasatch Your Back

A few weeks back I participated in my second annual Wasatch Back: Logan to Park City 190 mile 12 person (running) relay race. Yes, I know it's a mouth full.  Anwyays a bunch of us who ran it last year decided that this year we wanted a little competition, so we put together two teams (24 people) so we could race against eachother.  On our team we thought it'd be fun to split it, so van 1 was all girls and van 2 was all boys.  Turned out it was genius.

Van 1:

We had a caboodle, we read trashy magazine, we ate (healthy) homemade cookies, we had girl talk for 27 hours straight. We supported our runners better than you could imagine. 

I was runner 5.  I had a nasty 7.5 mile straight uphill climb over Avon pass.  The scenery was beautiful, but the dusty road and the heat at 1:30 pm climbing over that pass... Not beautiful.  As I came up the last hill to exchange with Krista we both got a little teary eyed. I was SO happy to be done with that leg of the race. Thanks for the support Krista!!!!

I'd like to give a shout out to Mr. Bushnell who set up a huge 10 man tent for us, so we could get a good nights rest of 3 1/2 hours of much needed sleep.

You may ask how can running through the heat of the day, all hours of the night, with minimal sleep, stuffed in a small van for 27 hours, no showers, no flushing toilets, be fun?  It may be inexplicable, but we had the time of our lives!

Turns out both teams ended together... Oh and we took 20th place!

Candid shot, all tuckered out after the race. Don't we look pretty?

P.s. while I was writing this blog post I found our team from last year "Team No Pants"  was featured on active.com.  See link and scroll down.  Pretty funny we're famous and we didn't even know it.

http://www.active.com/running/Articles/Run-Wild-at-the-Ragnar-Relay.htm?page=2