Dallying in Dayton

My kid sister is rocking it out with Guitar Hero (which I'm still pretty bad at). After all those years she made fun of my for playing video games- she's more into the Wii than I am.

This has been a nice visit out to the middle of the country- a last little Dayton trip before she deploys in January. Friday night we went to nearby Kettering, OH to participate in their first annual 5k "Run for Your Life"- a pretty entertaining way to spend Halloween night. It was a super hilly course through the neighborhoods in town, so we were cheered along the way by the locals and the course finished in a burst of fog machine fog and strobe lights- it was adorable. It was the first 5k either of us ran, though my sister has done half marathons before. She stayed with my slow pace, and we ran almost the whole course... except for walking up all the hills. This gave us a pretty slow time of 37'38" but I don't mind in the slightest. I wanted to beat 40 minutes, and I certainly did! Next time I'll aim a bit lower still- and hope the course is a bit flatter.

The best part of the race was our costumes. A few other people raced in appropriate Halloween attire, but we definitely got the most crowd support.



Finishing a race counts as winning in my book.


We also went to the US Air Force Museum today- it's enormous and very interesting. Heather posed in a cockpit for me.


I wrote a bit of my novel last night, slept a whole ton, and am finally nearly finished with On Beauty. And I'm zooming along on my cashmere stole. It feels like a real mini-vacation. I'm thrilled to have made it out here. I'm sad to leave... but very happy to be heading back to Arlington. Funny how that works.