Yesterday I told you that I probably won't be watching the Royal Wedding. I turned on the TV at about 1:30 am, but it wasn't being televised yet, I turned it on again at 4:00 and I missed the actual ceremony, but saw the couple after they were married. Catherine, as we now are to call her, was beautiful. The wedding dress was absolutely spectacular and it was nice that she looked like herself. Of course Wills looks OK too. It's nice to see a Royal couple who are happy. It was sad how Charles treated Diana because I believed she truly loved him, but he didn't love her. I have seen the ceremony several times over since then and I can't get enough. I'm actually watching a replay right now.
Today was a shopping day. The first thing I did after I got up was go grocery shopping, yes, grocery shopping. The local grocery store that I have frequented a couple of times now is fantastic. There is a coffee bar, where I had a chai latte. I loaded up on the salad bar too. I bought fruit, milk and bottled water to put in our hotel fridge. It's healthier than eating restaurant food.
After unloading the groceries, we went to the Conference Center so I could pick up my race package at the Health and Fitness Expo. I ran into a friend from Edmonton. I ran into a lot of people from Edmonton when I was in Australia too and it is nice to see a friendly face amongst the chaos of a strange city.
I visited a lot of little shops - White House Black Market, Lucy, and Victoria's Secret. WHBM and Lucy are great stores that I wish we had in Edmonton. As a matter of fact, I bought a dress and skirt at WHBM and a pair of capris at Lucy. Many years ago on the TV show Friends, Phoebe mentioned a store called Pottery Barn. I thought it was just a fictitious store, but today found out that it is indeed real. It is a home decorating store, kind of like Pier Imports, but there wasn't anything noteworthy; nothing Edmonton doesn't have. Victoria's Secret was on hand too, so I went shopping there as well, but I was kind of disappointed in the store. West Edmonton Mall has a bigger Victoria's Secret. Oh, I also bought a pair of funky socks - my signature colours...lime green and yellow with sparkly giraffes on them.
Oh, by the way, my Mom hasn't been forgotten. She's been with me all the way, but at a distance. She doesn't like walking too far, so she lets me go and do my thing while she keeps herself busy people watching. She also manages to meet new people. When I arrived at our meeting spot, she was sitting at her table with a couple of locals, all the while chatting to her heart's content. She told them that I was running the Big Sur Marathon on Sunday and a guy at a neighbouring table heard us, so he jumped in and we started talking about training and everything else involved in preparing for this race. He was surprised that I hadn't ran any half marathons this past winter. Well, he's from Georgia, where it doesn't snow and get cold. Guess where I'm from - yes folks, the deep freeze of the north, where we get very frigid temperatures and tons of snow. Lots of races during the winter months aren't something that Edmontonians do. I have a lot of base though to get me through the race. My friend at the Expo said I picked a hard marathon for my first one and to that I said "If I can do six Ironmans, I can do this", not that it'll be easy.
Time to head back to the hotel. I want to rest and get a good night sleep tonight because I won't get a good sleep tomorrow. I also have to psyche myself up for the ice bath I plan on taking tomorrow night to prepare my legs for a 42.2 km run. I will have to get up at around 4:00 am on Sunday and make my way to the conference center to get on the bus to be driven out to the race start.
I better get going now. I'm supposed to do a short run before the day's over - have to keep my muscles limber.
Ciao for now.
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