Slacklining

A few people have asked what slacklining is. This should help. But more importantly, I'm pretty proud of my newfound skill with the jumpstart. I always thought this trick was reserved for the super skilled slack liners and was always awed and amazed at those who could do it, never thinking I would be one of them. So either its not as hard as it always looked or my skills are really improving. I hope its the latter.

Dear Mom

Dear Mom,
Thank you for sending the cake. You're right, it wouldn't have been a birthday without one. However, I do not like the look of all the candles. It took 2 packages just to put enough candles on it. I think this is the first year I couldn't blow them all out.
Love,
Kristen

5k

Last weekend I completed one of my New years resolutions. I ran my first 5K. I'm not quite sure why I haven't done one before now but I could be easily convinced to do more (Yes Kaley, I will come again next year). I beat my goal time by 2 1/2 minutes. But no, I won't tell you what that time was. Mostly because half the people would be impressed and the other half would wonder if I had crawled the whole way. Now only 23.1 miles to go. JUST KIDDING!!

It's the Real Thing

I went with my mom on her trip to Atlanta. She was working the trip, which was fortunate for her because she was being paid to go as well as being guaranteed a flight to Atlanta. I did not have either of those advantages. I left early Friday morning after work and spent the next 19 hours travelling to Atlanta. Most of those spent in the Denver airport either sleeping or paying too much for food just so I could go in and watch the World Cup. I then spent the next 26 hours enjoying Atlanta with my mom doing such touristy things as visiting CNN and the World of Coke. For dinner we decided to go local and ate fried chicken and tried the okra, pickled watermelon rinds, collard greens, and other such Southern foods I don't quite understand. Then followed it up with dessert from The Varsity. We went to bed early because I had to wake up at 330 the next morning just to spend the next 24 hours travelling home. I went from Atlanta, Washington DC, LA, to San Francisco where I got stuck and BARELY made it back to Salt Lake. Yes, I spent way more time gettting to and from Atlanta than I actually spent there, but totally worth it.