Kinder Race

Last week was super busy.  A lot of running around (pun completely intended).  Worthy expressed interest in wanting to run the Kids Race.  They do this race on Saturday before the big marathon.  Worthy had his first baseball game before the race (on the other side of town) so it involved some logistic cartwheels on our part. We made it work.  

I took the other three kiddos down to the race start to pick up Worthy's shirt and number.  We had about an hour to wait around and William and Calvin made the most of it.  This place was swarming with kids ready to run a race, but somehow everyone seemed to stay out of our little triangle in the park - so from the pics looks like no one else was there.

Really enjoyed finding bugs

Here's a montage of them picking flowers for me.

Tree climbing

Then our racer finally arrived.  

Ready to run and hoping to "win".

Then the chaos ensued.  The parents are allowed to run with the kids and Dan ran with Worthy.  During the race, they began to separate kids & parents.  Some Idiot's decision.  Dan still had Worthy in his sights and was on way to reunite with him when a kid in front of Dan began to have serious trouble breathing.  When Dan stopped to help, he lost Worthy.  I was at the finish line waiting and I saw Dan run through, without Worthy.  He quickly explained they got separated and he was running back through the race to locate him.  Meanwhile, there are all kinds of kids finishing the race that have been separated from parents and can't find them.  They're in tears and crying.  Good job Idiot Race Coordinator.  It was just chaos.

Thankfully, we met up with some friends and they stayed with our other kids while I went back through the race and looked for Worthy too.  I found him near the end in about 15 minutes. I've never been so thankful for his blond hair before.  He was rather unfazed.  Thankfully, he hadn't come through the finish line - I think that might have scared him.  I, however, lost about 3 years of my life due to worry.  He was thrilled to get some Fanta and a Medal.

Afterwards, I took Will & Worthy out for ice cream to recover celebrate.