V~A~C~A~T~I~O~N

I have started planning our vacation for this summer, and I am SO excited!! Last year, we went on a mission trip to Mexico in June and Chile in October, so we didn't take a "vacation" although those trips were awesome, and I wouldn't have traded them for anything else! This year, I am hoping we get to go back to Chile.

This summer, however, we are planning a really exciting vacation (well, exciting for me anyway!) July 25-26 we are going to be running in the Ragnar Relay Northwest Passage race with a bunch of friends. It is a 12-person, 189-mile relay from the Canadian border down the coast of Washington. I have never been a runner, but we started training for this, and I am pretty excited about it. Our team isn't super competitive, so we are all in it for fun, and to be able to say that we did it! Robert and I will both be running, and hopefully some of our family members are going to join us, along with some friends! We still need a few more team members, so if you are interested, be sure to let me know! It will be a challenge, but lots of fun! Here's a map of the course:

We plan to stay in a hotel the night before and the night following the race, then we'll be camping at Olympic National Park for a week after. Our campsite is right on the beach - I love camping!! I have never been to the Washington coast, and Olympic looks beautiful... it will be a great spot for pictures!

Here are a few images I found of Olympic National Park on the internet... you can see why I am so excited to visit! It's still a few months away, but I know it will go quickly. (At least I hope so!) Between training for the race and the trips I will be taking for work (to Sun Valley in May and Las Vegas in June) I will have lots to keep me busy until then!