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The thing that swims, bikes, and runs!

Daniel participated in his first triathlon today, and it was very exciting. He swam 1/2 mile, biked for 15 miles, and ran a 5k which is 3.1 miles, and did it all in about 1 hour and 43 minutes. That's my superman!

We aim to someday be a family with a wall covered in race numbers. I am determined to do a marathon someday, so I want to be able to at least one 5k, 10k and a half marathon before I get to my marathon. I've already signed up for my first 5k on September 10th! Daniel will be doing more events like this (he's trying to convince me to do a triathlon next year - ha!) and will be doing more bike races. We want to involve our future kids in these kinds of things so they can stay active, at least until they decide it's lame. What a fun future we have in store for us!

He finished it though, and with energy to spare! Now he has a full day of work to do, both at Man's Image and Pizza Hut. And he needs to write his talk for church tomorrow at some point.

A very exciting day in the Watkins home!

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Yellowstone!

Well, we just got back from Yellowstone.

It was a blast! We are happy to report that nobody got attacked by bears or fell in geysers! We got to see so many different things, like...
Mammoth Hot Springs,

Artist Paint Pots,

a few geysers here and there,

and a beautiful trail we hiked through. The hike was incredible! It was a really fun when we realized that we hiked INTO a thunder storm, had some nice weather in between, then hiked OUT OF a different thunder storm. We felt hardcore. But over all, it was super fun!


We were accompanied by Anastasia and Andrew England, the lovely couple down the street, and that was super fun!

When Daniel and I got home, we talked about how each of us learned something about ourselves about that trip, one of which being the revelations that we really dislike tourism/tourists. Some people can be so careless and stupid, and its often quite frustrating for us. We learned some other things as well, because this was the first time all four of us had ever gone camping without a leader of some sort. It was all very exciting!

Getting back home, we go headfirst back into the world. Needless to say, we can't wait for our next adventure.

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