Scenes from Our Old Colonial

Good morning! I hope you're week is going smoothly! Last night Matt and I represented Virginia Tech at a local college fair, we had a great time talking about the campus and being stumped by prospective students about majors that we had never even heard of. All this while decked out in orange and maroon! It was a great night.

I'm still catching up on things from last week, so I don't have time to write a full post [sorry!]

But I do have, for your viewing pleasure, some scenes from Our Old Colonial:


[More Decorations]


[Painting the exterior of the house at Dusk]


[Painted Foyer-Gone are those dings from moving in!]


[Curtains in the living room being hung]

And finally:

["Did I seriously just do that?"]

Last Sunday I traveled to Bethlehem, PA to run my first half marathon: the Runner's World Half Marathon.



It was a hilly [read: challenging] and beautiful course.


[elevation]

My goal time was to finish in under 2 hours and I squeezed by at 1 hour and 58 minutes. When I realized that I had made it I almost started to cry but I didn't have any water left in me to do it!

The whole ride home Matt and I talked about the course and how the race went by in a blur. I was on cloud nine and just thrilled about my time and was even more excited when Matt told me that the route that he rant was actually 13.23 miles. This meant I ran farther (and faster) than I had thought! Once we got home we got ready to go eat our post race meal at Iron hill. We had cheese fries and hamburgers [and a little green salad]. After a long lunch we headed home for dessert: Bananas Foster with vanilla ice cream. Everything tasted so good!

Monday and Tuesday were spent moving [very] slowly, with long hesitations before ascending or descending stairs and plotting out just exactly what I needed to do if I had to move. Needless to say, I was in a bit of pain: but it was the good [great] pain: the kind that you earn from running your first half marathon!!

All that being said, I would do it again in a heart beat [after recovering of course!]!!