The Tour des Fleurs is an annual race sponsored by the Dallas Arboretum. Not only is it really pretty, it's also a great race with lots of amazing food (not just the typical banana and yogurt cup that are handed out at most 5K-marathons) and vendors afterwards. Plus, they have a kids/family 1-mile fun walk.
Since I was really hoping this baby would have been here earlier, I went ahead and registered for the 1-mile, and Ricardo for the 20K. And...since we managed to get up and get ready, we decided to go for it on Saturday morning. However, no one could believe that I was there are walking with my two and a half day old baby.
But it was an early morning. Ric's race started at 7:30, which meant he wanted to get there at 6:45--time to get to the start, allow for traffic, parking, etc.
So, we were up at way too early o'clock, and I had to pull a sleeping X out of bed and get her dressed and on the way. She was still a happy girl, but sleepy.
More awake and ready for the race. I posted this photo mostly because of those ears.
Enjoying our post-race snacks. I say post-race when ours was really a meander through the Arboretum. At the finish of the kids 1-mile, there was music, "I did it" stickers, snacks, photographers (who made free photo buttons of kids and families who participated), face painters, and a prince and princess who handed out toys (X got a wind-up neon green ladybug). Plus a butterfly painted on her face.
Ric enjoying his post-race "snacks"
Then we got to meander back through the Arboretum to get to our car. This is the first weekend of all the pumpkins--they really do an incredible job. I'm sure we'll be back to get some more pictures. I'm gonna need to knit another pumpkin hat first though!!
Tadpoles!
Papa and his girls
First family photo? We might have done one in the hospital...I'll have to check.
It was a fun day--and seemed totally do-able. I do wonder if I overdid it since I came down with X's cold since. I do not recommend getting a cold while trying to recover from childbirth. I'm starting to feel a bit better today--until I sneeze or cough repeatedly.
