Panthers, OUT!

Back from Forth Worth. What a fun girls weekend! Sarah, Michelle and I drove down Friday mid-day and the fun began. Started off our tourism at the Water Gardens. Uh, how is this legal? It certainly isn't safe. You really can't tell how steep it is in the photo, but it's basically small, WET, stepping stones with no hand rail, leading to several small pools of rushing water. Neat, but I was nervous going down.

I never realize how much taller than me everyone else is until I see photos.

We caught a movie, Fired Up and were were the only 3 in the theater. (for some crazy reason?) It was dang funny though! I loooove cheerleader movies and this one did not disappoint. We went around the rest of the weekend flashing the "Panther Paws" at each other. We are dorks indeed.

Dinner and the Expo wore us out and we were in bed by 9:30. We are cah-raze-ee wild girls for sure. Early to rise and hit the pavement. The race scene was insane. For some reason Cowtown felt the need to hold 5 races all at once. All with different start lines, but each with the same start time. Confusing for all involved. It was windy and cool, much cooler than I had planned for. Michelle was gracious to lend me her extra pair of pants (so glad she brought two pairs!) since my skirt wasn't going to cut it.

Sarah, Michell and Adriana trying to stay warm.

The race was, meh. I must say, Dallas puts on a better show. It wasn't very scenic and very few people came out to cheer. The Big D has more spirit for it's runners! About 5 miles of the race was on a brick paved road. Uh, painful! And dangerous. My preggers pal was running a little bit behind us and I kept turning around to keep my eye on her. At one point I looked back and didn't see her. So I slowed down more. Still no Sarah. So I stopped. And after a bit I REALLY started to get nervous. I tried to call her and I started running back, against traffic. She got my call and she was okay. She had fallen, Superman style, because she tripped on an uprooted brick. It knocked the wind out of her so she couldn't call out to me. And did anyone help her up? No. I felt so guilty for not being there.

Sarah showing off her injured knee from the fall of (wo)man. I'm so glad both she and her precious cargo are okay. It scared the crap out of me!

As if the brick road wasn't bad enough, they didn't stop all of the traffic so we were running in one lane with cars zooming past us in the other lane. That made me nervous. And they kept stopping the race to let cars turn or go through an intersection. I've never experienced that before. Weird.

This cute dog ran her first half marathon!

Michelle, me in my borrowed britches, Adriana and Elizabeth, post race.

We had fun even though we didn't even come close to a PR. That's not what this race was about. It was about friendship. :) The three of us held hands as we crossed the finish line. ( I told you were were dorks!)

Here we are post race flashing our Panther Paws. We are totally cool.

The funny thing about this weekend was, as much time as I spend with my girls, it is always running. When I picked them up it was the first time I'd ever seen them in "people clothes!" And makeup! And hair done! We had a lot of firsts this weekend. And I hope, firsts of many more to come!

More pics on Facebook. No need to duplicate all of them.