O-H-I-O

Wedding one in our back-to-back wedding weekends is done. We headed out to Ohio after work on Friday for K’s niece’s wedding on Saturday. We were scheduled to arrive pretty late on Friday night, but that turned into very late due to flight delays. After getting into bed a little before 2am, I was concerned about how I was going to get my 16-mile run in on Saturday before all the wedding festivities without much sleep. I managed to get up in the morning with barely enough time to get my run done on the hotel treadmill for us to get to the wedding in time (we saw the bridal party outside the Church getting ready to head in just as we arrived!). This was the first Ohio wedding that I have been to, and it was definitely a different cultural experience for me in a lot of ways. I realized just how different our wedding was from what K grew up with and what his family was used to. I wouldn’t have done it any other way though (and K knew that). Thankfully we had a few hours in between the ceremony and reception, so we were able to go back to the hotel for a quick nap which was much needed.

With a few more hours of sleep on Saturday night than Friday night, I was able to get up without too much difficulty on Sunday morning for a quick 6-mile run back on the treadmill before we had to check out of the hotel. I think it’s pretty funny that I have run more on the treadmill in the past month due to all of our traveling than I ever have because I have always been afraid of falling off and never really tried it beyond once several years ago. At least I’m getting all of my runs in! We spent a few hours on Sunday afternoon with K’s family before heading back to the airport for our evening flight. We got home relatively late and didn’t make it to bed until about midnight, so I decided in advance that I was going to run in the evening today instead of getting up at 5am to run 12 miles with our unofficial Monday morning run by Carolyn. That’s just not enough sleep for me to run and have a full effective day at work.

I’m happy that this is a short week since we are taking off early on Friday to go to Colorado for Jane’s wedding. And, next week is another short one too because of the 4th of July. Gotta love that. K actually goes back to work tomorrow after a month sabbatical (he took his first one in September for our wedding and honeymoon). Must be nice, huh? It’s been nice to have him home though to take care of chores and errands for the past couple of weeks.