so in the past couple weeks, pbs and i have been trying to keep cool and keep busy and out of trouble. not easy to do with 100 degree temps, heavy humidity and a busy-body toddler who gets into everything. last week we got out four days during the week, two of which we had the car.
(the car's air conditioner broke on the hottest day we've had so far. it made a horrible rattling noise and blew hot air. if it had be blowing cool/cold air, i think i could have dealt with the noise. js took the car in to the dealer to be fixed on saturday. they fixed it and it's better than before! yay!)
the two days pbs and i were out in the car we had all of the windows down to try to stay somewhat cool. didn't work so well. we went to target to get cool...both days.
thursday we took the metro on downtown to pick up our shirts and bibs for the susan g. komen race for the cure. it was about 10 to 15 degrees cooler than the previous two days, so we took a walk on the Mall.
we met some friends, who were in town for an eighth grade trip on friday. we walked on the Mall and met them at the american history museum. we saw the trains, dorothy's ruby red slippers, the muppets, the first ladies dresses and the musical instrument room. they had dinner plans. pbs and i ,headed home. js was home when we walked in the door. we all went to bed somewhat early because saturday was going to be a very busy day.
saturday would prove to be a very busy, hectic day. we got up and moving by 6:15 am to get downtown for the susan g. komen race for the cure. we woke pbs up so that we could get him ready to go to the race. we were all in our shirts, even pbs had a onesie with the pink ribbon on it. waiting for the metro to leave the station took half an hour because they were doing track maintenance. when we finally pulled out of the station, we found out we had to switch trains because they were running single track from our stop to old town. we changed to a yellow line train after waiting a few minutes.
of course with all of our waiting we were a little late for the start of the walking part of the race, but we joined in at almost the beginning. lots of pictures were taken of the sea of pink. there were many groups and teams that participated, but the best name had to go to a team called "walkers for knockers". js and i got a kick out of that. there were over 40,000 people running and walking.
after we finished, we fought our way upstream to capitol south metro station. we got off at old town to get some lunch, hurried back to the station to wait forever for our train home. when we got home, js was picked up by the shuttle to get the car and i had to get ready to go to the sounds sweet bell concert that i was ringing in later in the day. pbs went down for a short nap.
we all left for the rehearsal before the concert. pbs and js went and got some food and came back for the concert. pbs watched and listened to some of the concert and played in the nursery for the rest. after was the "sweet" part of the concert, an array of christmas desserts! there was taking down of the bell tables and platforms that had been built the week before. the ringers plus a few went out celebrate the end of the year. we finally got home about 10:30 pm and crashed.
i don't think we really have "lazy" days of summer.
