Other fun in Lake Placid!

We arrived Thursday evening for a Sunday race.

Thursday - just down the street - they had live music, right on a lake :)

 

 Friday, we checked in for the race and walked around Lake Placid - stopped by the Olympic Ice Rink :)

 had a nice dinner on the Ausable river

and some ice cream :)

 On Saturday, we decided to take a gondola ride up Whiteface mountain

 It was beautiful!

Going back down - the road on the right is one that we ride in the race (it looks like a river b/c it does follow a river :))

 On Monday - after the race, we had a yummy breakfast and then went to High Falls Gorge

 Going up and down these steps the day after a 13 hour race probably wasn't the best idea...

 But the views were worth it!

 And then we headed to back to Lake Placid to say goodbye :)

 There was a huge fire on Saturday night - this brick building burned.  It caused a lot of issues for those athletes staying nearby (they had to evacuate a city block for more than 6 hours).  Some athletes didn't get back to their hotels until after 11 pm.  Not the stress you want before a big race! Fortunately, we stayed out of town (we registered late), otherwise we would have been one of the groups evacuated.  Whew!  The fire caused another issue too.  The run off from the fire hoses went right into Mirror Lake - where we swim for the race.  They had to do testing to make sure that the water was safe for the athletes.  They ok'd it just an hour before the race started!

 Then it was time to get packed up and head back to reality.

 We let our wetsuits and race clothes dry in the sun.  It was so nice not to bring swamp clothes home with us!!

We did it again! Ironman Lake Placid

We headed back to beautiful Lake Placid, NY for our 3rd Ironman there!

 

 It's such a hard challenging course, but it's also so beautiful - it always calls us back.

 Racking our bikes!

 Dropping off our gear bags

 getting our legs ready for the big day - our friend Peter trying out our recovery boots

 The chute - after the athletes have crossed the finish line

 an Olympic hockey player did the race!

 Me & Chris after :)  We finished!  That's always our number 1 goal,since the day is so long and you never know what may happen.  Chris & I both took it easy - did a lot of the bike & run together.  Fortunately, my legs did not cramp (yay!).  Unfortunately, Chris' stomach gave out at mile 17 and he had to walk it in :( 

 Me, Chris, and our friend Peter

 and our friend Rachel brining it home!!!!  (picture from Rachel)  Such an exciting day!!

Fun night with friends!

My friend moved into a wonderful new home, so she invited some friends over to see it!  We had fun in the pool!

 

 and the bouncy house!

 It was such a fun evening with friends :)

Crazy cruise night

Dinner on Atwells Ave in Providence

 

 

 

 

We walked back to the cruise night - and this is what we saw...

 

Crazy cars doing huge burnouts - like this one!

 

Serious!

 

From earlier in the evening - the cars weren't the best - but the burnouts at night were pretty cool

 

And the location of the event - at The Steel Yard - was very cool!

Visit from family!!

My brother's kids visited from Chicago!

 

We took them to Sakonnet winery for live music one night

 

 sailing the next

 we cruised the sailboat around Newport harbor - shopping for our next boat (ha ha)

 It was a beautiful day

 Then this happened...

 hahaha - not really.  He wanted to jump in and hang on :)  His sister didn't really knock him off - looks good though!
Then dinner in Bristol - on the water of course

 And the day after that - we headed to Boston!

 we walked around Harvard

 Then we headed north to New Hampshire to a drag racing event!

 It was a pretty cool night - not something you see every day!

 These jet cars were the coolest!

 Then we went sailing again! This time we took the sailboat to a nice cove where we could swim

 Good times!

 And then it was off to a Cape Cod baseball game!

 The weather was perfect!
Their final day, we went to Newport & walked around Thames Street.  Lunch on a pier - nice view!

We had so much fun!  We love visitors - wish we had more!!!