Race

The kids ran in their first race last night. It was 1K at the Kimberly Paperfest. They ran the whole way (as did Brian and I along with them), and got a goodie bag and a medal - that they put on again first thing this morning. Yes, Allison went with the broken toe. She had been so excited, we figured if it was bothering her that she would walk. She ran it.

In the goodie bag was a water bottle (nice) an ice cream coupon (nice), a brochure for sports physicals (ok) and coupons for the Mall of America (??). You know, for the next time you're 4 hours away in Minneapolis.

The kids library reading program has also earned them coupons for a meal at Texas Roadhouse and free Cinnistix at Dominos. They are accumulating a wealth of free stuff that will end up costing us in the end. It's more like two free kids meals with two paid adult meals at a restaurant I have zero desire to go to, and free cinnistix with the order of two medium pizzas.

Paperfest, by the way, was the worst excuse for a community fair I remember attending. Granted, it was early Friday night and kindof raining, but it was still bad. The 5K run was separated by the rest of the event by a long and not obvious walking path (there were no event maps anywhere). There were like 5 scary looking rides and several inflatable bouncy things ($1 for one ride down little the inflatable slide). I was given directions to the location for beer bracelets, then decided it wasn't worth the trek across the grounds to some other place and drank a pepsi. Then there was the world's worst karoke. Who messes up Happy Birthday??