What a weekend!

Wow! What an amazing weekend!

Friday night I made it to the Frolics for fireworks. I'm impressed... Crystal didn't do too shabby! We were in bed decently early (midnight..) to prepare ourselves for Saturday morning. We were up and out of the house at 7:15am Saturday to go run the Boston Scientific Heart of the Summer 5k around Lake Nokomis. My goal going into it was to finish in under 35 minutes, since I hadn't been able to do it under 39 minutes on the treadmill. WELL... I did it in 34:50! I had gotten close enough to see the timer when it was at about 34:40, and so I used every last bit of energy I had to sprint (yes, literally sprint!) to the finish line. I was so happy to be done, and to have reached my goal. I'm also so proud of my fellow 5k finishers, Robin, Christin, Christine and Gary :) Congrats guys!!!

After the 5k, we went to the Red Bull flugtag event at Harriet Island. It was absolute MADNESS but so worth it! The world record was set there (of course, leave it to Minnesota to kick ass!) at 207 feet.. the previous world record was 195 feet, and the US record was 155 feet. Miami's winner made it 54 feet, to put it in perspective. You can see the amazing world record-setting flight here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Im8VtLQgh4

After we got home, we had a couple friends over and made our way over to a Frolics pre-party. All I will say about the party is that it was interesting. We went to Frolics again and had a good time running into a few old friends! Finally I got to go to bed and Sunday morning woke up for the BIG weekend event... SKYDIVING!!

I can't even begin to explain the skydiving experience. It was a mix of emotions, but mainly it was excitement!! I was not nervous on my way up in the plane- I felt I had finally gotten rid of my nerves by then and was ready to just go. I actually yawned on the way up, and Gary's tandem instructor looked at me and said, "was that a YAWN?" Finally, I was up. I made my way to the open door 13,000 feet above land, and all the nerves came rushing back. But there was no time to change my mind, and the videographer wanted to see me smile. I put on the best fake smile I could, and the next thing I knew I was falling. Free falling at 120mph! It was the most insane feeling I ever have, and probably ever will, have. I was scared out of my mind, and freezing... it is COLD up there! When the instructor tapped me after a minute of free falling, I knew it was time to hang on because the parachute would [hopefully] be opening. Well, IT DID! After seeing the amazing view (of sky and farms...), we came down to land. Well... although I KNEW I was not supposed to put my feet down at all, I didn't want to get serious grass stains on my jeans, so after my butt hit, I put my feet down. BAD IDEA. We weren't done moving and my feet/ankles took a beating. I woke up today barely able to walk- but if that's the only injury I have from skydiving, I'd say it was a success!! I got extremely nauseous while in the air and it lasted until about an hour after the jump. I'm glad I had the video and pictures to remind me how much fun I was having when I wasn't thinking about puking! :) I WILL do it again, and I can't wait.

So that was my weekend. It was slam packed with amazing activities, but I'm extremely happy to be back at work to "relax" ;) I was thanking God this morning for a desk job...

Happy to have lived through the weekend!