On July 24, we celebrated Pioneer Day with my family. In the morning, we ran in the Deseret News races in Salt Lake. Some of us ran the 10K and some of us ran the 5K. Since every single member of the Ricks family (except Adam and Kristina, who would have run if they'd been in Utah) participated in one of the races--either as a runner, walker, or stroller passenger--there was no one to take pictures of us as we finished. I think it's a much better memory without pictures, since we all ran. And without an actual photo of the "photo finish" between Platte and me, I can have a happy memory of having beaten him in our 0.2 mile sprint at the end. (When the official times came out, he apparently came across the finish line one second faster than I did.)
In the afternoon, we enjoyed a nice Dutch oven meal up at the cabin. Since there is no fire pit up there, we brought our homemade port-a-pit. In one oven, I cooked some BBQ chicken and in the other, I cooked some cheesy potatoes. We also had a quinoa salad (a recipe I found on the New York Times website), corn on the cob, and homemade Oreo ice cream. The food was great.
It was nice to relax up in the cool canyon air. The "little girls" had fun playing Skip-Bo, and the "littler girls" loved chasing each other around the cabin.
2 comments:
It was a fun day, that's for sure. Still, I miss having pictures of the race. Because I finished about 10 minutes before I thought I would, I didn't even have anyone to cheer me on at the finish line. :( Lyndon, Platte, and Daniel were already digging into their bananas and Jamba Juice.
You are starting off those littler girls off right! One with the ping-pong ball the other with the paddle.
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