Last night I was at a party, a fundraiser one, for a gal who is going to run the NYC Marathon, and is raising $ for cancer fund for her entry. Great party, ping pong ( I love the game and realized last night how truly relaxing it is to play, just hitting back and forth, I think it's the sound of the ball on the paddles and the table, I could play for hours)
The house overlooked Puget Sound. Awesome view. Some one said, well you have a view of GLake. Yes, but I could swim across my view, not this one.
Anyway, at the party were some friends I hadn't seen in ages. Their kid, William, just started school, and was going to be in a cross country meet today. 5 year olds. At Woodland Park. We couldn't miss this. What a scene. It was a CYO meet. Lots of schools participating, many colored t-shirts. Hundreds of kids milling about. Now try finding a kid we last saw as a 3 yr. old. hmm. Fortunately, the kindergartners raced first, a half mile. We spotted him on the start line, and cheered him on at the finish line. And then hung out with his mom at the school tent.
Well, guess whose kids also go to this school? That's right, even the richest man/philanthropist in the world has to spend the day spectating a kids' XCountry race. We'll just call him the "Other William".
Have we run recently? 11 miles on Friday, 3 on Sat., 5 today. Cuz I know you're keeping track.
2 comments:
You can always spot a true P & R person by the love of ping pong!! I think I'll buy a table this week....maybe that will lure the most favorite aunties our way!!
Oh, yeah?! Well, the son of our PE teacher (and a former student of ours) took first place in his age group in the long jump at the USATF Junior Olumpic competition this summer. So, I know some famous track kids also.
But, if you run into that other William's dad at one of these events again, feel free to tell him about your sister's technolgy-deprived school in Oregon. He likes to fund the high schools around here, but hasn't shown much interest in the younger kids.
And, BTW, we have a ping pong table at 133 Washington for those rainy days at the beach.
Joan
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