Summertime Beach Bum

I had found a post about a Harry Potter Running Group. I decided to check it out, and they were announcing their next race soon. They announced and it was the Half-Blood Prince. I signed up and ran my miles. I also joined all the Facebook grounds, and not only is there the main group-The Great Hall, there is each team, The houses, and then there is one for people who want pen pals-Owl Post. Love it so far! I have also gotten several pen pals from them too. They are announcing the next one tomorrow and i am more than excited. 

Turtle Bay Race-this was closed to new people when i first found it, but i wanted to join it! They opened it up to a few more people, and i quickly joined. I really liked this race because two summers ago i read a trilogy: the beach house by Mary Alice Monroe, and throughout all the books were the common theme of turtles. So i have liked turtles since then. Here is a little bit of info posted about this race:  Best of all, your 24.1 miles of sweat and glory will be helping children who are battling cancer in hospitals across the U.S. Along your journey we will share statistics about childhood cancer, as well as encouraging information about how your run (or walk) in paradise will help some of those children WIN their battles!

Grateful for Nurses was a 5K whose proceeds went to  Doctors Without Borders, whose goal is to help people worldwide where the need is greatest, delivering emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from health care.    The day i actually ran this race i ended up running my furthest distance yet. It was a total of 10 miles, however when i reached 5K i clocked it so i could count it.  I also made sure to run this race on May 9th, the exact day (2 years ago) that i passed my nursing NCLEX.  Happy Nurses Week! 

On Friday as soon as I was done with my patients Mark and I headed up to Burlington Vermont. We arrived up at the hotel around 4:30. Mark drove as I continued to work. We make this trip every year around this time because mark is in a bowling competition. Friday night it was a friend of ours Birthday, so we all went out to dinner. After dinner we all went to one of the hotel rooms to hang out and drink. I was exhausted though because I had just worked 12 days in a row, so I called it a night early.  Saturday we made good use of the pool/hot tub, and then it was time to bowl. Nikki and I went into town for a few hours, then back to watch the men bowl. As soon as Mark was done we rushed out of the bowling ally and headed to another hotel 26 minutes away. A few weeks prior a friend of ours that we had met on the cruise told us he was proposing to his GF. We learned it was the same weekend and same town in VT where we would be. So I helped him create a plan, and we were going to