{"id":2748,"date":"2014-05-31T21:34:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T21:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2014-05-31T21:44:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T21:44:33","slug":"walking-the-color-blaze-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=2748","title":{"rendered":"Walking the Color Blaze 5K"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in January I saw on Facebook something about a 5K called Color Blaze. \u00a0I didn’t have a clue what kind of 5K it was, but I saw that some people I knew were going to walk it, so I registered to participate.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to today and my grandson, husband and I went to our fairgrounds where it was to be held. \u00a0It started at 10:00, or so I thought, so we got there a little after 9:00. \u00a0 We got our shirts and walked around and I sat down by a lady wondering to myself why people were coming in so late for a 5K that started at 10:00. \u00a0“It starts at 11:00,” she told me. \u00a0Oh, well. \u00a0So we waited almost two hours for it. I was tired before it started and it was hot.<\/p>\n

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This is my eight year old grandson who was going to walk with me.<\/p>\n

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This is us before the 5K. \u00a0We look all nice and clean, don’t we? \u00a0See those women in the tutus? \u00a0People dressed up in crazy outfits.<\/p>\n

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Here we are again. \u00a0See how white our shirts look?<\/p>\n

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Then the fun began. \u00a0Color powder was going everywhere, even up my nose!<\/p>\n

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We got packets of colored powder and my grandson was enjoying throwing it on me. \u00a0 Good times!<\/p>\n

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The powder flew.<\/p>\n

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People were shouting and catching color packets they threw at us. \u00a0It was a color blast.<\/p>\n

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Suddenly, we weren’t so clean anymore.<\/p>\n

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We were in the middle of this and it was hard to see anything when the powder was flying. \u00a0I had to hold my nose to keep the powder from choking me, it was so thick.<\/p>\n

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We made it to the finish line. \u00a0The first mile my grandson got a stitch in his side and was not sure he could make it, but he did and we walked every mile and didn’t take a short cut once. \u00a0It was so good to see the finish line, though.<\/p>\n

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David was our photographer and although he wasn’t walking, he got colored powder thrown on him also.<\/p>\n

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It was a fun morning, but we were tired and hungry afterward and went to Musillami’s, a local drive-in hamburger joint very popular with the locals. \u00a0They were packed with cars, but we got our lunch pretty quickly and ate it with gusto.<\/p>\n

Then we went home and I washed our car, we took showers and hopped into the pool. \u00a0I am pretty bushed right now and the weekend is just starting as we have a graduation party to go to tomorrow, a movie tomorrow night and King’s Island on Monday. \u00a0Not bad for two old folks.<\/p>\n

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I will leave you with a picture of a hot air balloon that was floating lazily above our house the other day. \u00a0That’s something I would like to do one day, go up in a hot air balloon. \u00a0Have a great weekend. \u00a0Bye.<\/p>\n

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Back in January I saw on Facebook something about a 5K called Color Blaze. \u00a0I didn’t have a clue what kind of 5K it was, but I saw that some people I knew were going to walk it, so I registered to participate. Fast forward to today and my grandson, husband and I went to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-memories","category-fun-times","category-taking-walks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2750,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/2750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}