National Parks, Soccer, and a Rainy Run!

Last weekend was a busy one!  On Saturday we went into Philly to pick up the shirts and bibs for the Broad Street Run that was the next day, and while we were in town we stopped by the Franklin Institute so we could see a film about the National Parks that we'd really wanted to see!  It was a short Imax film (45 minutes) that was narrated by Robert Redford, and we both really enjoyed it. McGee and I recently decided that we want to try to see all of the National Parks together, so we made a list and are crossing them off as we see them!  We've already seen 8 out of the 59 National Parks, and we have plans to see 2 more this year.  Some will be really difficult, so we just have to win the lottery and retire really early. No problem!

I took a picture of Ben Franklin at the Franklin Institute! 

And here's the poster that was outside of the Franklin Institute! 

After the movie was over, we drove to Kevin's friend Juliff's house, and then the 3 of us headed to the Union soccer match!  They were playing against San Jose, but I was rooting for Philly. The weather started out pretty nice but ended up getting really cold as the game went on! But luckily it didn't rain on us. 

I loooove the views from the stadium!!  So darn pretty. 

Here's McGee and Juliff! 

We tried really hard to get to bed at a decent time that night, because we had to be up SO early on Sunday morning to head into Philly for the Broad Street Run!  We were up at like 5am, which is just NOT cool on the weekend. And they had predicted hard rain all morning and day, and they were SO right. It was pouring while we were driving into the city, and it didn't stop raining the entire time we were at the run. McGee had a GREAT run though, and I was so darn proud of him! I had fun cheering on the runners with McGee's parents, and the runners were so very sweet and appreciative of our cheering. Usually there are a TON of people cheering on the runners, but this year most people stayed home because of the rain!  There were 40,000 runners though, and as they were running by us they were thanking us for coming out to cheer!  So sweet.

Here's a great picture of McGee that his dad took!  McGee was getting ready to hand me his sunglasses (he'd had them to block the rain from getting in his eyes, but they kept fogging up!).  He also gave me a quick kiss as he went running by :)  

McGee and I both felt SO exhausted by Sunday night (McGee earned his exhaustion way more than I did!  He ran 10 miles!), so as a result this week has been a pretty tough one! But luckily tomorrow is Friday, and we don't have any major plans for this weekend. Tomorrow night (Friday) we're having our friend Timmy over for dinner, and then on Saturday we're going to see Captain America: Civil War!  Wahoo!!  We're also going to work on a few projects around the house, so hopefully I'll have some fun progress to tell you about next week. And Sunday is Mother's Day, of course!!  Happy Mother's Day to all of the moms, but especially to my amazing mom!!