The weather on Thursday morning looked decent when we woke up, but when the race started, the rain started too! It has rained a total of 0.15 inches since April, but that morning we got over 2 inches of rain in 2 hours! It was miserable, but we all finished. Over 7,000 people ran too, and you can tell they were mostly San Diegans because nobody has rain gear for jogging! We didn't get any pictures because it was raining too hard to take a digital camera out! The race was very crowded, and Colleen had to wait to cross not only the start line, but also the finish line in the race. That never happens! Last year only 4,000 people ran it, they weren't prepared for the huge crowd.
We were soaking wet, the streets were flooded, but that didn't ruin our thanksgiving spirit! By noon it cleared off and the sun came out. We visited
Coronado Beach so Aaron could see the Navy Seal training base, then went home to start cooking our big Thanksgiving meal. This pictures is from our breakfast / brunch at Richard Walker's Pancake House after we cleaned up from the race.For the big Thanksgiving meal, we made homemade cranberry sauce, we mashed potatoes, cut up apples to add to our stuffing, sauteed green beans, cooked some delicious turkey, and had a wonderful meal! In addition to Lindsay, Aaron, Colleen, Jim, we had L.J. over too! And, Colleen's sister Erin and her boyfriend Nate arrived from San Francisco.
When we were done with dinner, we played two intense games of Cranium! Then we crashed because we had only had two hours of sleep. This picture is from right after we ate, notice how everybody is tired, even our cat Millie!!!! Also, notice our "fireplace" on the left?!
On Friday, the weather was beautiful so we took the Old Town Trolley Tour of the City. It is a great way to see the city and learn all about neat facts on how the City was founded, developed, etc. We toured Old Town, downtown, Coronado, Little Italy, Balboa Park, etc. When we were at the Hotel Del Coronado we saw a unique sight, ice 
skating on the beach!
Here is Lindsay and Aaron in front of the Hotel Del Coronado
Saturday we had breakfast on the beach then we went to the zoo. We toured the zoo for 6 hours and walked over 5 miles thourgh the hills and canyons of the zoo. We liked these Koala bears, notice how they sleep in the trees?? Really cute!Sunday all of our guests left and we began the clean up! We went Sunday afternoon to a doggy adoption event and met a wonderful dog named Kylie. See our above blog for more on what could be our new lab!
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