With Caleb’s “Gramdma Vivi.” Nora’s surrogate grandma for when none of hers are around……..and 3rd stage ovarian cancer survivor.
With her best buddy, Caleb. Can you see the flushed faces? This race was long. It was supposed to be 600 yards but Kervin thinks it was more like 800. Which shouldn’t be a problem, but because kids don’t exactly know how to pace themselves, they all started very fast. It was really cute though, we could tell she was tired and slowing towards the end but she didn’t stop.
It was great that they gave all of the kids a trophy as well. Made her hard effort well worth it. I asked if she wanted to do more long races like this immediately after the race, her response was “No.” But after getting the trophy 10 minutes later she’s all about it.
What a cool town. Kervin had 3 bike races. The one on Saturday was supposed to go from Durango to Silverton. That may not mean much to most people who read this but for those of you who’ve been there, you know why that’s something to talk about. Well, unfortunately (fortunately for me) it was cancelled since the mountain pass was covered in snow and slush. So we just hung out at the camp where we stayed. We stayed at a Christian youth camp called Cross Bar X Youth Camp. Here’s what our day looked like:
Then Sunday morning was Nora’s first bicycle race. She was so excited and up for the challenge. They went off in separate heats, by age. She was the first 3 year old girl, 4th overall. Pretty good. First and third place were also Like-A-Bike’s. She had so much fun. Here she is waiting for her race to begin:
And after the race her smile just got bigger:
After that Kervin got second place in his criterium bike race. Basically it’s a 45 min race plus 3 laps around 2 diagonal city blocks, so lots of fun turns for him and very spectator friendly. It was a long day and we spent almost all of it out in downtown Durango. Before long, this is what that looked like:
On Monday Kervin did a time trial and got 2nd so he won a cash prize for each of his second places plus more cash for doing the best overall in the combined races. Cool!
We stayed at the Cabin. Here are our friends kids we stayed with:
Luc, Ella, Chelsea, Isaac, and Nora
Then we decided to stay an extra night and leave early Tuesday morning. So we went to the pool again. This was Isaac’s first time in a pool. And look what Kervin thought he’d enjoy!:
Not so much.
Nora’s favorite part of our trip to Durango was Luc. Luc is our friend’s 10 year old little boy. He adores Nora and loves playing with her, lets her beat up on him and helps her out. She loves it.
But if you ask Nora who she’s going to marry she’ll still say “Daddy”…….well, 9 times out of 10 anyway. Sometimes it’s “Caleb”.
