The weather today

This morning my facebook status said:

" Hmmm the news is all about the bitter cold. It's 61 at 6 an what bitter cold? It's hot!"

Due to payday activities we got off at noon, by then it was in the 80's. Because it was so warm I thought that it would be fun to play with Clara's water table. 

The temperature at 4:00 PM. The 84.3 is outside the 76 is inside.

Pouring some water from up high.

 Splashing around. 

Yes we had a lot of fun playing outside with our water table in January. We are supposed to get a cold front tomorrow, which I think means we only get to the upper 60's.

How is the weather where you are living?

Start of our trip report

So what is mommy (me) coming home form? Why that would be Kabual, Afghanistan. I just spent a lovely 9 months away from my family in another country, helping teach Afghanis logistics. I have to say compared to some people on deployments my deployment was very easy and I was lucky. There were very few times that my FOB (camp) was on lock down, I only had one roommate and we had indoor showers. I also had Internet in my room so I was able to SKYPE with DH and DD on a regular basis. It was hard being away but modern technology is great and I was able to talk to my family a lot.

So now with that little bit of background there is also another reason we took this trip is I got a crazy idea that since the Disney World half marathon was in my time frame of when we wanted I wanted to register for it and run. With that in mind our Disney days would be January 5th to the 13th. However, my DH really wanted to drive and to make part of the vacation about him so we decided to leave on Sunday the 30th drive to Florida meandering down and making some stops. I wont talk about that part of our trip unless you want me to but I will talk about our few days we spent at universal studios.

So without further ado a few quick 5 ws.

Who:

 DD Clara  16 months old during the trip, me  old enough :

What: Celebrate my coming home with a fun and awesome trip.

Where/When: Jan 3-5th Universal Studios Royal Pacific Hotel

Jan 5th-13th  Animal Kingdom Lodge Jambo house Club Level  

Why - Who does not love disney? and since when my DH came home from Iraq we went to Disney it's a tradition now :).

Half Marathon

I thought I would start off my 2013 blog with a little bit about what I did today. 

TOday the alarm clock went off at 3 am!!! Crazy I know right. However, it was worth it as I had a lot of fun today. What did I do you may ask? Well I ran the Donald Half Marathon in disney world.

Now the following is a picture I pulled off the rundisney facebook page found here : Run Disney Facebook Page

My official finish time is 2:32.20 I was shooting for under 2:30 but with all the walking I have been doing the last week while at the parks and the heat I am a ok with my time. The next one I bet I can get under 2:30 :).

I also got a really cool medal, and wore it around the few hours I was at the park today. You will have to excuse the sweaty iPhone picture I had just finished and was on the bus going back to my hotel. 

After the marathon, we went to Animal kingdom so I could eat and ride one last ride. Then came back and me a little bit had a nice long nap, packed up the room and we are headed out back home tomorrow after a great vacation.