That night we brought him to an authentic Californian eatery, In-n-Out. We got him a one of their folded paper hats and two stickers. He loved the food. We also made him try Root Beer. He was hooked.
Sunday - In the morning Dave and Hamish left for their 5 day road trip to Death Valley, Las Vegas, Hoover Dam, the Grand Canyon and Phoenix. I went to The Grove in the afternoon and bought two new pairs of jeans for Dave. He has only one pair of jeans left that do not have holes in them.
On Sunday night I went with Dustin and Janelle to the Flight of the Conchords concert at The Greek Theater. It was awesome! In the beginning they came out in sweet robot suits. They told a lot of jokes, poked fun of the USA, and made me miss New Zealand.
Monday - I woke up at 6am to go cheer on my friend Janelle who ran the LA Marathon. Parking and navigate around the road blocks was quite the obstacle. While trying to find parking at the starting line I hit a pigeon. It was terrible. I didn't hit it hard enough to completely kill it and saw it flapping and rolling around on the ground. It was so sad.
I went to the starting line and looked for Janelle, but there were so many people I couldn't find her. Once it got to the walkers in the back of the pack, I drove ahead to about 2/3 of the race. When I got there it was only a few runners going by, so I hoped it was the first of the pack. I waited for about a half hour and then I saw her. I had made a sign that said, "Go Janelle!" on one side and "Janelle Rocks!" on the other. I held it up and cheered her on.
From there I went to the finish line. I made a quick stopped at Ralph's and bought her a dozen pink roses for the finish line! I picked a nice open spot along the road about 200 yards from the finish line. While waiting I had two people come up and take pictures of my sign. It was just a piece of cardboard with the letters written on with permanent marker. About 40 minutes later there was Janelle, still running strong! She looked so happy to see me and so happy to be almost done.
I amazingly managed to find her in the family and friends welcoming area. We walked around for a little bit. Janelle went off to go get a massage and hung out it the shade. She did awesome and I'm glad I could watch her. She finished the race in about 4 1/2 hours!
2 comments:
so when i first read this, i thought it said you hit a person by the starting line! then i got to the part about it flapping around, and i realized i must have read wrong:). i did that to a squirrel once, and it bounced around- literally, like higher than the cars, all over the road. i about had nightmares.
LOL! I didn't know you hit a pigeon! Don't feel bad--there are plenty more, and this one must have been pretty stupid to let you hit it. :-) Thanks for the photos!
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