A busy saturday.

October 23 was a busy day. It started off with insanity: a 2 tower, I think 40 flights each, 1000 stair climb that Justin and I had signed up for. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), I wasn't able to participate as I had injured my hip flexor running earlier in the week. #**&$#! I was so annoyed because I REALLY wanted to participate in the stair climb. It was sponsored by the American Lung Association so it was a great cause, and the first climb that they have done in Bellevue, though they've done climbs in Seattle. There were two different towers to climb TWICE for a total of 1000 stairs to climb. Of course, this was the hardest one to do... you could have opted to just do one tower or two towers. Since I couldn't participate, I was the designated photographer:

The beginning of the race: Stairwell one.

And Justin (in the red) coming down the first tower, running to the second. The race is a timed event. And can you believe, people actually do this competitively? There was one guy (who ended up winning it all) that did it all again just for the sheer fun of it! Of course, he weighed about 80 pounds but still.

Justin coming down tower 2 and heading to tower 3... looking a little tired this time.

And waiting for him at tower 3 to finish his final tower...

ANNND.... he's done! Look at how sweaty he is! I want to say his time was 40 minutes or something. He did great and I think ranked 25th or something which is really good. I do have to say that while waiting on him, I saw quite a few people yakking at the finish line. It was GROSS.

And my little number that wasn't used. Sad. I think I could have done really well.

Later that day we went out and went Halloween shopping for our big party that we are having for Halloween. I went to goodwill with Justin and HOLY CRAP. We got such good deals on Halloween decorations. It was incredible.

Later that night we headed to our friend Rhetts' house for a birthday party he was having. I think we were both a little tired by that point but by the time we got there, we started to have fun talking to everyone else who had come to the party. It was great fun and another great (though busy) day.