Yesterday was a full day--starting with the Boston marathon in the morning and the Lexington parade at 2pm. We froze most of the day but had such a neat time. It was tough getting close enough to the marathon and I was even to the point of telling the boys that maybe next year we would see it! But we were able to park about 1 mile away and we walked up to the route. It was dizzying (is this a word?) watching the runners pass us. We saw numbers as high as 26,000 so wonder if that means there are that many runners? Some interesting sights among the runners! One guy was juggling, another lady looked about 5 months pregnant with her belly hanging out (most disturbing!), one guy had a suit coat with tails and a top hat with a fake beard, two ladies all dressed in pink with crowns on, one guy with rabbit ears, one guy all dressed up as batman (that looked hot!) and so on. We had a blast and definitely hope to see it again next year. We watched it with Tara and Jesse as they live right on the route. We missed the girls and the handicap racers as they started before 10AM. Around 10, we saw two jets zoom through the sky (not sure what they were) but I heard they signal the beginning of the race. I'm wondering who won. There are lots of police escorts and at the start of the racers drives a truck with a big timer mounted to the top of it. Just behind it was a tight group of males, one white guy at the very front and just behind him 7 or 8 Kenyans (I'm assuming). The face on the guy in the front was incredible, wish I had gotten a picture of it.
After the race, we drove over to Lexington to watch the parade. What a long parade. It started at 2 and was still going strong at 3:20. Didn't notice when it actually ended....we were shivering to hard to notice much! It was 50, overcast and very windy. Much of the parade was people dressed in revolution costumes, playing fifes and drums. Very cool!
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