the only "running" gift

What a great night... My son and I showed up at the door, ring the door bell, wait. Ring the door bell again, hmmm, no one is answering.  Go back to the front of the house, make sure the house number is right.  Yep.  It is.  Go back to the door, knock on the door instead.  Still nothing. Check my email, to confirm that what I "thought" was the right number was right.  Yep, I was right. Ring the door bell once more.... ahhh, good, it's the right house.  By the time we got there, 18 people were already into the appetizers, wine, and laughs... so no one heard the door bell or knocks.

My son was shown to the basement (sounds horrible, doesn't it), but by 10pm, I had a hard time getting him outta there! He hit it off immediately with the hosts' son, who is about 6 months younger and some of the other runners' kids... so I'm glad he came.  With the kids, there ended up being about 23 of us... 

Thankfully I ran yesterday -- we had to get a second table out of the hosts' basement to accomodate all the food!  After a lot of eating, a little drinking, enjoying dessert, we headed over to do the gift exchange.  Kris Kringle style, pick a number, lowest number picks a gift first, then the person after has the option of stealing someone else's gift or opening a new one.  

I got #13 out of 16 participants... I never get that lucky!  For the most part, everyone felt bad "stealing" from someone else, so the majority just picked new ones...

Whoever's gift I got obviously did not follow the rules... we had set an amount of $20.

I got the Reebok ankle (?) pouch thing, to hold keys, money etc for running, a Clif  Peanut Toffee Buzz Bar, Strawberry Banana Gu, Mandarin Orange ROC2O Nutrilite pack, a Simply Nutrilite Tropical Sport liquid, and a gift card for the LCBO, Ontario's Liquor store, for $25!  Do you think that whoever brought this gift read my blog yesterday, about the Pomtini's, and thought perhaps that I indulge in these a little too much, and made sure that I got this gift? lol

Being that this was a gathering of other nutty runners, like myself, I was surprised at the end that this was the only running related gift, and that no one stole it from me! (I made sure to downplay the value of the gift card.. i think it worked *wink wink*) There was everything from coffees, martini glasses, iTunes gift cards, a pretty wide selection.

Once the gifts were done, checked the time, almost 10pm!  Got my son out of the basement with the other kids, he filled up his belly with some more fruit, and we headed home, where he promptly fell asleep in the car.

I feel very fortunate to have found this group of wonderful people.  It's already been just over a year since we started the HM clinic, sometimes feels like a lot longer.  

Have a great day!