Is there ever such a thing as a good pain? Liesel argues that there is.... muscle siffness! However, pain is pain, and right now, all the major muscle groups in my body have united and taken a firm stance against me. It all started on Saturday morning when Liesel and I went to our first exercise class together in about 4 weeks. As expected, my limits were challenged, but I managed to endure the 50 minutes of muscular torture. Today, however, my stomach, shoulders, chest and hamstrings are continually reminding me how out of shape I am! It's amazing how we take these muscles for granted in our daily activities, until they are filled with lactic acid! So, if it is a good pain, I will stop whining, and soldier on... (until I get up from this chair).
Before inflicting that pain on myself, we had a great evening with friends who came over the night before. Liesel made a delicious meal (again) and then while the kids played and watched Monster's Inc, the adult's played some card games together. We all had so much fun that they only left around 11pm, keeping Nathan (and Liesel) up way past their bedtime, although neither of them complained :P
Last weekend's theme circled around Liesel and myself as we attended the 1.5 day marriage seminar. This weekend, it was definitely a father - son weekend, with Nathan and I spending some beautiful quality time together! After lunch on Saturday, I took Nath to the local library, for his regular date at the Brick Builder's Club, where he gets to spend an hour with Lego bricks to come up with anything his imagination dreams up! He had a great time there, and soon we headed back home to do some final preparations on his "Speed Bus".
This bus is his (our) first entry in our church's annual pinewood derby championships. He was so excited to be entering the competition with some of his good friends. So did the last minute touch ups and lubricated the wheels and axles with the graphite powder - and soon we were off to the championships! The bus weighed in at 4.9 oz (there is a 5oz maximum weight), and then placed with the other cars in his category. In the initial time trials, we were very happy with the performance, and his vehicle clocked a scale speed of 104mph (166km/h)! The competition was in a round robin format - so his car would race against all other cars in his age group. Out of the total of seven heats, the speed bus took first place every time!!! The judges then added up the scores from the various heats and found the final four to race for the trophy. I believe I was far more anxious than Nathan as the cars raced down the track for the final time. Nathan's red bus took first place by about a car's length and we were overjoyed (again, me more than Nathan...) So for our first ever entry into this type of competition, it was such an exhilarating feeling walking out with a first place trophy! Nathan was ecstatic, as not only did he get a first, but his friends received a third place in the open category and his class mate received a prize for one of the best looking cars.
Oh - how sweet the taste of victory!!
On Sunday morning, Nathan and I went to IHOP to celebrate his previous night's victory together over a pancake breakfast. We had a great time together, and once we had finsihed up - we headed to church, to meet up with Mom and Josh.
As the saying goes - all good thing's must come to an end, and after all the excitement from the last two days, Nathan was complaining of nausea today, a sure sign of a strep throat infection :( Josh has also been battling to shake a persistent cough and runny nose, so it seems the boys will be paying a visit to the pediatrician tomorrow :(
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