I DID IT!

I ran the whole- 1/2 marathon in just under 3 & 1/2 hrs. (3 hrs & 27 minutes). In my opinion, it was the hardest thing I have ever done. But I feel great to have done it & very proud of the medal that now hangs from my wall.

I have had a few laughs the past couple of days when people look at me then read my shirt in shock & ask "You ran a 1/2 marathon?!?" I reply "yep, and it was amazing!" I am by no means an "ideal-looking-runner" & I think people expect that when they hear of people running/walking a 1/2 or full marathon they expect elite-looking runners. I must say I did to until I did it. There were people of all ages, from 18 to 78! There was a girl there that I was greatly surprised to see there, this girl was quite large but to see her jog the whole thing - wow, that's all I can say. Not every one in the half made it that started, but a lot finished (I think as I didn't see many buses of people pass us, a few, but not too many). The amount of people running was enormous. There were somewhere between 30,000 - 33,000 runners for this race alone!

Can't wait to do it next year!

I will post a few pictures of the race later.

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Gengerbread House

Tuesday I have a Christmas party that I am attending and there is a Gingerbread House Contest that I have entered. I didn't want to make a regular 'Ol Gingerbread house, but something "cooler." So why not a castle... I hope I have made the right decision. This started as a simple project, and keeps getting more & more complex, I hope it turns out all right.... My original inspiration came from the this picture:




Which is a stinkin' sweet playhouse... (click on the picture for the web link).

So I was going to do a near replica of this , but not include a back, so that it would show the decorations of the inside, but I didn't want to spend a lot of time on the inside, so then I discovered a picture of the Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany & it won me over:


(Click on the picture to enlarge it, it's pretty big)

Yea I know that is a lot of work, but I am better at construction than at designing figurines, well stick figures I can do, but let's face it, I don't think that would work...

So I sit here, with all of sorts of pictures of this castle taken from all different angles, analyzing it and cutting it down to "model" size, then I found this link to create a paper model of it.

I am going to print this out & build it tonight, then use the measurements I've made and compare them to this paper model and figure up final measurements. I am mainly going for the larger part of the back of the castle & if I succeed at that & I have time, I will continue with the rest of it. If I fail & still have time, then I will go back to my original design of the playhouse idea.

Well here we go...

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