Fiesta Days 2008

Spanish Fork LOVES the 24th of July and has a huge celebration every year called Fiesta Days. There is a Rodeo, Carnival, entertainment at the park etc. This morning Rich and I rose at the break of dawn to run in the 31st annual "Speedy Spaniard Road Race". It is a 10k race (6.2 miles), this is our 4th time running this race. My sister Monica has come the past two years and was planning on coming this year but she had to have a root canal and wasn't able to come, we really missed her!! The race starts at 6:30am and the weather was actually really good this year, it was overcast and a little breezy which made the run pretty enjoyable! Carrie and Janet also ran the race this year (they both beat me, they are awesome)!
Rich got 17th place overall and 2nd place in his age group. It only took him 37.44 minutes to finish (that's 6 minute miles people, he's a running machine)!! There were about 600 runners total so 17th place is pretty sweet! I took a little more time to finish, I came in at 1 hour 5 minutes. I obviously am not very competitive just out there having fun!!
We came home and got the kids and headed down to the Parade. It is SO long and not very exciting but I am not a huge fan of parades in general. It was pretty toasty but the kids had fun. Alex got hold of the camera and took most of these photos.

We all parked at Janet and Todd's house since they live right off main street. Almost all of Rich's family was there (Carrie and Jennifer were MIA).


Max was SO dirty when we got home. He got mad about something and was face down on the asphalt for a few minutes...also the chocolate donut he was enjoying was pretty messy. Parker thought it was cool the Missionaries were in the parade and wanted his picture with one.

After the parade we went home and got showered and took a little nap. We went to Barry's for a late lunch/dinner and then went to Grandpa Cope's for a BBQ. We had fun visiting for a few hours. Alexa and Alex went with Joseph and Harrison to the movie "Batman, The Dark Knight" it was Alexa's 2nd time. Alex loved it, I thought he might be scared but he wasn't.
Me, Rich and Max drove down to see the Firework show and it was pretty pathetic. I was glad we didn't go to the ballpark and have to fight the traffic afterwards. We had a great 24th of July!!!