Christmas Day Run

I don’t think that I have ever run or worked out EVER on Christmas Day. But this year I did.

We woke up early as usual and opened gifts. It was a small group of us. Just my parents and my second oldest brother, his wife and twin boys. That is small compared to having the other 4 siblings their spouses and 5 nieces/nephews. I sure did miss them.

After the gifts were open I went to change and when I came out the twins were hanging out in their diapers just as happy as can be. Now it has taken a while for them to warm up to me because they have only met me twice in their 14 months on this earth so any second I get to have them play with me and them enjoy it is precious. As I played I couldn’t help but try to convince myself not to head out on the run.

 

But I knew that if I made an excuse today I will make those excuses often. So when they went down for a nap I headed out.

It was nice to be outside running, it was beautiful and surprisingly not very cold.

I loved running downtown New Jersey. It is so different than Utah, the architecture, the feel, the weather, even the very few people that I saw outside. I learned something new about myself, I really am not a typical tourist, I could care less about seeing the sights, what I LOVE is meeting the new people at those sights. I wish that I could just travel the world and interview people. Maybe I could just run across the world and along the way stop and talk to random people to hear their life stories.