More Vacation fun photos

Since it took us so long to get this going, we are catching up with photos and fun times.

Over Easter Trav and I met my family in the Abacos, Bahamas for a family reunion. My uncle and aunt took their sailboat and sailed through the Great Lakes, down the east coast, and we met them in the Bahamas for some fun in the sun, snorkeling, laying around, and SHARKS!! The group photo of the diving trip includes my mom and Jerry, my uncles John and Bill, and Trav and I along with other people on the diving trip that I don't know. The last group photo is on my uncle and aunt's boat with the rest of the family, as dressed in our JOHESA shirts!

We also had some fun with some sporting events. Trav played in his annual Alumni Rugby Tourney in Madison (alumni against the current UW team) while Christi did the Danskin Triathlon in Pleasant Prairie (on the border of WI and IL near Kenosha) and the St. Paul Rollerblade Marathon with sister Rachel. Trav would love to tell you that he spends the entire year working out just for this one game, but that is really not true. But he does like to beat up on the younger players!

The Triathlon was great. This was an all-women's tri, which is much less stressful than the co-ed tri I did last year. I did the sprint distance (1/2 mile swim, 12 mile bike, 5k run), which is

double what I did last year, my first tri, and I made it. Quite a feat for someone who is scared of swimming. Many thanks to my sister Rachel for all the time she put in helping me learn to swim at the Y back home. Now I know how to breathe when I swim! Very important!

The rollerblade marathon was treacherous and miserable. The trail is along the Mississippi

River in in downtown St. Paul and is very pretty when it doesn't have sucky weather! Very cold rain the entire time and I wasn't even close to my goal time. It was great that Rachel did it this year with me. As always, the fans are great and the atmosphere fun, but the rain made it the worse race I have ever done. I think Rachel would agree too!!! Thank God for Mom and Jerry and Trav waiting at the finish line with rain coats and smiles!