Thursday, October 22, 2009

Canadian Thanksgiving and the Victoria Marathon

We went to Victoria for Canadian thanksgiving and for Mike to run the Victoria marathon again. He ran his first marathon there last year, so I guess it is now an annual tradition. Oliver was a real trooper on the trip up, as there was a ferry fire and we had to wait at the terminal for 3 hours. He had a great time actually - he really likes driving the car!

On Saturday we went over to the Withrows' house for dinner. It is so fun that they live in Victoria now and we can see them whenever we are there to see my mom. We had a really great time catching up.
Then Sunday morning was the big race, so my mom, Oliver, Lulu (my mom's bulldog) and I headed out to cheer him on. This was the first sighting in Cook Street Village.





Oliver did his best but he just couldn't stay awake for the whole race...


The next sighting in Oak Bay...unfortunately he was faster than we thought and we missed him before this. Then we had to get a coffee and we missed him again...Ooops!

Then it was off the the finish line - Oliver was up and very excited for daddy!



And there he is - much faster than last year (6 minutes faster!), although just a few seconds over 3 hours...

We went back to my mom's for thanksgiving dinner. My mom got Lulu a bee costume because Oliver is going as a bee for halloween. She made me bring his costume for a photo shoot. It didn't go well. First Oliver was super cranky and needed a nap, so he passed out in the costume. Then when he woke up we took some photos, but he wasn't his usual smiling self. When I picked him up, I realized it was because his diaper had leaked and his costume was soaked through! Poor baby, no wonder he wasn't into the photo shoot!

He got to get out of the costume but Lulu wasn't so lucky....

Grandma got Oliver a very special thanksgiving present...a fire truck!

The morning we left, we met up with the Withrows again for breakfast. Aren't they the cutest little family?

Another ferry ride...look at his arm and leg. This baby sleeps in the weirdest positions!


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