Busy Times

The past couple weeks have been quite busy for our family.

On Saturday September 11th, Tim and I competed in our second (and final) triathlons of the season. The triathlon was in Wasaga beach. Tim competed in the Sprint distance triathlon and I completed the "Give-it-a-tri" distance (400 m swim, 10 km bike, 2.5 km run). It was challenging for me, the swim didn't go very well, I had a lot of swimmers around me that I couldn't seem to get away from, and they were bumping me from all sides. Quite frustrating. However, I felt that my run went better than the first tri I competed in, and I finished, so that's all that matters. Now I have motivation to complete more and do better next year!

On Sunday I headed to Belleville where I stayed over for the night at the in-laws. We had a nice little visit and then on Monday I made my way down to Ottawa for the week. My sister Alissa got married on September 18th (more about this in the next post), so I went down for the week to help out in any way I could. I found myself driving all over the place in Ottawa picking up items, dropping things off, sitting in traffic, making fudge, sitting in traffic, washing rocks (don't ask ha ha), sitting in traffic, etc etc. There was a great bachelorette on Thursday night, good food and lots of celebrating. It was a wonderful week overall. But I won't miss the driving, or the traffic.

We got back to Barrie on Sunday night, and this week, every evening we are busy taking our SCUBA certification. This is something we've wanted to do for a long time, so it's exciting to finally do it. However, I can be quite apprehensive about the water and tonight we have to take our masks off and breathe underwater without the mask (but still with regulator in mouth) for an entire minute!!!! YIKES! I am pretty nervous about that one. Sigh. The things I put myself through. And all this week, Sammy is with a babysitter in the evenings. Lots of fun for all this week. I'll keep you posted.