Ice Kachang Land: Chronological Recap

I think it was a pretty quiet week for the most part, the came the weekend... well the party started Thursday night with the Storming of the Bastille, a mindless 5 mile run around the city of Milwaukee in celebration of the flashpoint event that sparked the French Revolution.

I was supposed to run that with Tammy and Becky but somewhere between heavy rain, shopping (not me, them) and a scrumptious dinner, we somehow managed to be late for the run. I mean, when we reached the start line, there was NOBODY there. And, there were thousands of people running, so the tailback should have been pretty long, so i would say we were pretty late.

D-O-H! Where the %*@#$ did everyone go?

Well, determined to run we were, since we had braved the night to turn up in running gear and all, plus the 2 gals had actually paid good money to run. After snaking through a few sidewalks and buildings, we caught sight of the runners and quietly slipped in to... the FRONT PACK. We were running hard but these people ran like they wanted to WIN, and were going past us left right & centre. We probably would have run faster if not for the Kobe burgers and crab cakes bouncing up and down in our digestive systems. I probably would not have lasted the full 5 miles, so it was a good thing that we were late and ran only 1.5 miles ultimately... haha... that's what i call a discount!

As with all good fun runs, we had our supporters show up. Brandon showed up with his lady Luly in tow, not to run but probably to have a few laughs. I somehow even managed to literally bump into Chris Gilmar from our sales desk at work. I think we all had good fun that night =) .

$20 for that T-shirt?!?!?

Chris Gilmar on the left

The motto at the Bastille festival after the run of course is "Drink Beer, Save Water", and there was plenty of that going on. It was a pretty neat festival with shops selling various knick knacks and live music being performed all over.