Bubble Run!

Emery and I did a Bubble Run 5K a few Saturdays ago with some friends. And just to clarify, it's called a bubble run but there was absolutely NO running on my part, or Emery's since she was in a stroller the whole time. But it was still so fun! Here we are in the car driving to it, still smiling and excited!

I didn't get any pictures from the start of the race until the end because I was just trying finish the race and I didn't even think of taking pictures until the finish line. But here we are, at the finish line:

We made it!

The race itself was so fun. They had these colored "bubble bogs" every kilometer that you got to walk through during the race. In the middle of the bog the bubbles were WAY over my head! I made the mistake during the first one to go right through the middle as the bubbles were coming out. It felt almost like I was suddenly underwater and I couldn't see ANYTHING. It was actually a bit traumatic, especially since I was so disoriented and I KNEW that Emery would be freaked out but she was in the stroller I was pushing but I couldn't see or hear her and I was trying to get through the bubbles but I kept running into kids who were frolicking back and forth in there so it took awhile to get out. I learned my lesson and went through the SIDES next time where the bubbles were only about 3 feet deep. :) 

I was glad we did it with friends, especially since my friend Julie (the one above) is super cute and crafty. She had us make the tutus and she got fun bandanas and bracelets and made sure we were totally decked out. We were some pretty good looking bubble racers!

Playing in the bubbles after the race was over. She looks pained because as I snap the picture she says "I HAVE TO GO POTTY!!!" 

Bubble beard!

This is what the bubbles looked like

So the race itself was fun and I'm glad we did it. But there were WAY TOO MANY people doing it (over 20,000 I think they said) and it wasn't very organized. We stood in line to start the race in the hot sun for 2 HOURS. It was terrible. I was not at all prepared for that and I was super hungry, we drank all our water, it was hot with no shade and I was getting close to blacking out from standing in line so long. I started to worry that I wouldn't even be able to start the race, let alone finish it, because I felt so bad. Come to find out the reason it took us so long to get to the front was because people were just coming from registration and instead of getting in line, LIKE THE REST OF US GOOD PEOPLE DID, they just cut in to get to the front. I was pretty mad when I realized why it had taken so long. Once we got moving I felt much better, tired from standing so long, but I walked and pushed Emery in the stroller the whole time no problems. I was a little disappointed because I'd been psyching Emery up for this for weeks, we'd go on walks and little jogs to prepare, because I wanted her to run at least a mile of it. But I was so tired once we started that I didn't even have the energy to get her to run. So she had the easy life and stayed in the stroller. 

That's a long rant, and we did have so much fun so I shouldn't complain. In the end, it was worth it and I would do it again. Next time I will just prepare a little more!