January 25, 2009

Sunday 25~~~~Today is Thresa's birthday, the 4th one of our January birthdays we are missing by being on the road. So glad we have our cell phones so we can call our kids a lot and keep in touch. Gary picked us up again this morning and we drove to the annual Carlsbad Marathon. There was 20,000 people running in the race. Some of them ran 26 miles and they were back to the finish line from their run before we got there. We had plenty of time to see a lot of runners come in though with that many people running. It was real interesting to see the support the people gave the runners.With that many runners and walkers for the races plus all the people like us who came to watch all the streets and parking lots were full and the runners had to park and walk quite a distance before they could even start the run. We all got a work out before the day was over. From here, we drove to Camp Pendleton Marine Base where we drove all over checking it out, it is many square miles in size. While we were driving around looking for the museum, we came across a huge and I mean huge paint ball field where we spent some time watching the paint ballers fight several battles. One of the boys we were talking to was from Silverton, Oregon and had just moved there. They had several large battlefields and all ages of kids doing it, even some girls. When we left here, we stopped at the museum of old artillary, climbing on all the tanks, jeeps, etc. just like little kids. We decided you have to be pretty young and in good shape to hop up on those tanks or even get off. Some were hard to get into as you can see in the pictute of Kent trying to get into one. Getting out was even harder. LOL Today we remembered our camera, we got lots of pictures of us being silly.