I had a very fun day today. Kelly picked me up for the Diemer Run around 7:40. It was raining in the morning but it stopped raining by the time we had to run. There were a lot of alum guys at the race. Kelly, Kristin Haugsma, and I were the only Alum girls though. The current Calvin runners were working the race. The race went out so fast. If I could do it again I would have stuck with Diemer and the beginning. He passed me around 2 miles…I am guessing he ran even splits unlike me. After the race there was a little parade. All the kids were gathering the candy that the floats were throwing out. There was a pretty sweet old fire truck that came by at the end. Awards were very long because the race had Diemer written all over it—aka- wants everyone to be included and feel good and included-- so they game out age group awards to the top 4 in every age group and the top 10 overall male and female, and then the top masters. Everyone that got an award also had there picture taken with Diemer. In addition, if you beat Diemer (or had an equivalent girl time that would beat Diemer) you got a donut. 
We had to leave after the awards because it was already pretty late and we wanted to swing by Calvin and look at the new construction and take a shower before heading to Kalamazoo. The new field house is monstrous. Both Jeff and I were a little jealous that we never got to use the facility. We arrived in Kalamazoo around 2PM..just an hour late : ) We had a great time visiting with Grandma and Grandpa. They are so great! We had some appetizers and chatted. Grandpa told some stories from when he was in the Navy. He said that he didn’t want to be in the army but he had a bad I eye so he failed the eye test so they marked his chest (HO for holdover). So that night he memorized the eye chart and the next day he told them that he had had a rough night the night before but there was nothing wrong with his eyes and then recited the whole eye chart by memory. I thought this story was funny. Grandma updated us on all the latest. Scott and Cindy had come for dinner the night before. Grandpa is going fishing next week with Uncle Ed in Alaska. Mitch and Lee are living in different places next year (one in the dutch house). Little Eddie is doing great and is as cute as ever. Erika got exercise induced asthma from doing soccer and track so needs to choose one sport. That’s just a bit of the latest. Grandpa made a vegetable garden in there yard. It looks really good. The plants are still small but he is hoping for a big yield. He has tomatoes, peppers, broccoli….I don’t remember what else.
They made burgers for dinner and had ice cream with strawberries for dessert. We ate in the sun on the deck. Jeff left around 6 and I stayed until 9.
We had to leave after the awards because it was already pretty late and we wanted to swing by Calvin and look at the new construction and take a shower before heading to Kalamazoo. The new field house is monstrous. Both Jeff and I were a little jealous that we never got to use the facility. We arrived in Kalamazoo around 2PM..just an hour late : ) We had a great time visiting with Grandma and Grandpa. They are so great! We had some appetizers and chatted. Grandpa told some stories from when he was in the Navy. He said that he didn’t want to be in the army but he had a bad I eye so he failed the eye test so they marked his chest (HO for holdover). So that night he memorized the eye chart and the next day he told them that he had had a rough night the night before but there was nothing wrong with his eyes and then recited the whole eye chart by memory. I thought this story was funny. Grandma updated us on all the latest. Scott and Cindy had come for dinner the night before. Grandpa is going fishing next week with Uncle Ed in Alaska. Mitch and Lee are living in different places next year (one in the dutch house). Little Eddie is doing great and is as cute as ever. Erika got exercise induced asthma from doing soccer and track so needs to choose one sport. That’s just a bit of the latest. Grandpa made a vegetable garden in there yard. It looks really good. The plants are still small but he is hoping for a big yield. He has tomatoes, peppers, broccoli….I don’t remember what else.They made burgers for dinner and had ice cream with strawberries for dessert. We ate in the sun on the deck. Jeff left around 6 and I stayed until 9.
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