August has come and gone very quickly. Looking back I am trying to figure out what in the world has kept me so busy??? I am training for a half marathon that I am running with my friend Megan in October. So that keeps me busy 6 days a week. Pretty much when I get home from work I hit the pavement.
I also spent one week in Rapid City, South Dakota for work. This was my first work trip and I guess it counts as a mini promotion. We were opening a new store, so I went as part of a team to help set things up. I am going to start traveling more; the next opening is in Draper, Utah in October.
When I got back to town from that trip Justin's parents were here for a short visit. We really enjoyed spending time with them and as always love it when we have family in town. We went to the Parade of Homes together and even spent a little time golfing.
Ashley came back from Africa later that week, so we spent the weekend listening to her amazing stories.
This week the Democratic National Convention is here in Denver...I am hoping to head downtown and be part of all of the excitement/craziness tomorrow night.
I have attached a few photos from my visit to Mt. Rushmore when I was in Rapid City. I have a funny story to go a long with them. It might not be as funny telling it like this...but I promise you it was HILARIOUS! I was in a car with my boss, Barb, and my co-worker Elena. We were leaving Mt. Rushmore and Barb pulled over at a scenic area where you could still see the mountain. There were two older ladies and a gentleman taking pictures. Barb gets out of the car and starts talking to them in a french accent. She says, "Who are those people up on the mountain." (Remember in a french accent.) One lady says, "those are the Presidents." (She had a strong southern accent...so you have to imagine that too.) Barb says, "Which ones?" The lady responds, "Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt." She couldn't remember the fourth, so she yells over at her husband, "who is the fourth one?" And he yells, "Franklin, Ben Franklin." At this point I am practically dying laughing and Elena has her head buried in the back seat from listening to Barb talk with a french accent. Barb gets back in the car and I ask her, "Did he just say Ben Franklin?" Then we giggled even harder because it is John Adams on the mountain and Benjamin Franklin was never President.
It made me think of when Jay Leno does his "Jaywalking" questions on his show where he asks people random American history questions and he gets a million different answers to the same question. I can only imagine how many different answers one would get if they stood there and asked people all day long.
