Portland Marathon Weekend

The first weekend every October brings us the Portland Marathon. Although neither Heath or I run the marathon, we like to go down to watch my uncle Jim run it. In the past we've done the 5 miler as well, but we took this year off...which ended up being a good thing since neither one of us slept well the night before due to a stuffy hotel room and a fussy, coughing little boy. We didn't make it to see Mariah's 5 miler race, but we did get to cheer Jim into the finish line.

Portland is one of our favorite cities to visit....we actually got engaged there some 6 years ago. It rarely rains while we are there, so we get to enjoy walking around the city and the Portland Saturday market. We also love the fact that we get to hang out with the Boyles too. Dad even came down with us this year! I've only been trying for 5 years to get him to come down.

We all met up Saturday at the market and listened to music, did some artsty shopping and got in some people watching. Saturday evening we met in Ruthy and Jim's room for a special wine tasting for TC's (Jim's mom) 82nd birthday. After that we went to a favorite restaraunt, La Terratzza and had some more wine and great Italian food.....celebrating TC and Virinda's birthday with creme brulee'! On Sunday, after the race we all met up again for lunch and Guinness at Kell's.....a great Irish pub near the Market. We had a really good time, even with Mr. Fussy Britches :) Grayson is doing much better now that he got some serious sleep. Oh by the way....he ended up getting an ear infection...which we got diagnosed on the Friday before we left....thank goodness!