One thing I didn't really expect to add to our list for this year, was a family fun run. Larry and I did a Dirty Dash about 9 years ago and we told the kids about it a lot. But then, when I got an email about a Bubble Run coming to the Salt Lake Fairgrounds, I thought that would be so much fun to do as a family (it even said it was great as a family event). Plus the email said we could get free registration if we did it right away. So I convinced Larry to get us registered for it and we planned that.
Let me just say, for having free registration this still cost us SO much money! We had to pay taxes and fees, plus parking, plus they tried to charge us $5 per person for a registration packet, which we realized didn't have anything in it that we didn't get in the mail anyways, so we skipped paying that, but man it was WAY more expensive than it should've been.
Luckily we got there early enough that we were in the first wave. We had decided one of us would run and the other would walk so that whichever the kids wanted to do, they'd have a parent with them. We kind of assumed Larry would walk, since he had the stroller, and I REALLY wanted to run it (I feel like I'm in some of the best shape I've been in and I love walking or running around). As it started, I was running with Cara and Gwen, while Larry had Pierce and Lucy in the stroller (Lucy was going with me for a bit, but gave up pretty quickly haha). Eventually, Cara and Gwen wanted to walk so I was with them, when Larry decided to start running and passed by us. Gwen saw that and decided she didn't want to walk, she wanted to run, so she caught up with Larry and off they went. Cara said she had a side ache, so I walked with her. Every time she thought she was feeling better, she'd start to run again, but then it would hurt again, so we just stuck with walking the rest of the way.
When the first bubbles came up, we didn't realize they'd be colored ones, but we loved going through them (they did end up dying our clothes, and a bit of our skin though). Cara and I were able to finish it in less than an hour, which was nice for walking so much of it. We started so early (we had to get up at 5 to leave and get there in time to check in), so after eating some snacks we brought with us, we decided we needed to go home and take naps/relax.
The kids said they liked the run, but Gwen said she wished Larry would've let her slow down, she ran the whole rest of the race with him, so that's a TON of running her little body did. However, the rest of the day it was like she didn't know how to sit still, she just kept running around the house. It's like a switch flipped in her and all she knows how to do is run now haha. Cara loved that we got medals at the end, of course.
I liked it so much, I told them I think I wanted to do our neighborhood Turkey Trot that they do on Thanksgiving (or design our own 5k route to do on our own that morning, if the neighborhood one has so many hidden costs like this one. No need to pay just to run outside). This was a really fun event for us and I hope it gets the kids wanting to move more, if we can do more of these ones in the future.
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