Book Marks.

Back in the spring, our Book Club chose The Painted Girls as our monthly selection.  As you have seen here and here, I use Post It flags to tab things that I think I'll having trouble remembering, the introduction of new characters, and passages that I think I will want to share when the time comes to discuss the book.

Last week, we found out that the author, Cathy Marie Buchanan, was speaking at a local library and given how much we all enjoyed her book, we took Book Club on the road.  When I grabbed it off my shelf, the tabs were still there so it was much easier for me to go back through and remind myself of why I loved this story so much.

When it was time to have my book signed, we had a good laugh about my tabs.

I had forgotten, until this morning when I saw her Facebook page, that she also asked to take a picture of my book.

Proud Book nerd, that's me.

Color Me Rad.

Sorry, but I just couldn't let this one go.  This run was WAY too much fun and although I'm sad that Peter and Sheldon missed out, I'm so happy that we were able to spend such a great morning with Susan and Chris and the kids.  Here's a few more shots from our day.

Before and After.  (Can you tell we're sisters?)

At the start line.

Celebrating our 5k victory!

Photo credit:  Susan

A post-race Colour Bomb!

So.  Much.  Fun.

Colour. By numbers.

Number of hours in our road trip:  31 hours

Number of people in our travel party:  3  (Plan A was a family trip together.  Then Sheldon was scheduled to work.  Plan B was for me to take Juliana and her friend, Amanda.)

Number of hours spent driving:  10

Number of times tween girls played "Wrecking Ball":  57

Number of times I wanted to gouge my eyes out:  56

Number of girls totally excited to see that Tim Horton's makes grilled cheese:  2

Number of disappointed faces when the Tim Horton's grilled cheese sucked:  2

Number of small white dogs that we saw riding on the back of motorcycles:  1

Number of small white dogs WEARING GOGGLES that we saw riding on the back of motorcycles:  1

Photo credit:  Amanda

Number of kilometres in the Color Me Rad race:  5

Number of girls hiding out in the car, pre-race, because it was too darn cold outside:  3

Number of clean, white T-shirts before the race:  6

Number of family members starting the race with really cool socks:  1

Number of colour stations in the race:  5

Number of clean, white t-shirts after the race:  0

Number of happy runners celebrating afterwards:  7

Number of family members who, post-race, realized that they needed to have cool socks like mine:  1

Number of times Juliana has asked to go to Wendy's in the last two months:  36

Number of smiles when we finally stopped for lunch.  At Wendy's:  2

Number of days late I am in writing this post:  22

Number of days until we can run another colour run:  not soon enough!