XC Nationals

A few weekends ago, Kod and I headed up to Kenosha, Wis. for NAIA Cross County Nationals. Here are a few highlights from the weekend:
- Spending Friday night at the Carr's home in St. Charles (it's always fun to go there alone and pretend like we actually live in a big house! haha)
- Dropping off our mountain bikes in St. Charles for the winter! (yay!! They're no longer in our bedroom!)
- Leaving super early (well, like 7:30 a.m.) to drive to Kenosha and almost not even going to the meet because we wanted to sleep in so bad.
- Driving by an American Girl building and the Jelly Belly factory on our way there.
- This one is pretty amazing, so it deserves a more lengthy story - Kody printed off directions to the meet before we left...well, to Kenosha at least. He said he couldn't find where the meet was located. So we arrive in Kenosha and Kody tells me we're just going to drive around until we find the meet (huh??). We take the first Kenosha exit (there are like three different exits you could take) and Kod begins driving for a while down a main road. He decides to call a friend on the team, who tells him this: "Exit the interstate, go for a while, take a left and then you'll run into it." (HUH???) So, Kody follows his directions and goes for a while, takes a left, goes a while longer, makes a few other turns (never making a U-turn, mind you) and we magically end up right at the college where the XC course is. I'll admit, I didn't think he was going to be able to get us there, but somehow he did and I was very impressed by my husband that day!
- During the very cold, long meet, Kody proceeded to lose our car and apartment keys when the fell out of his coat pocket. We searched the course and the "wilderness" where we had been, but didn't find them. Thankfully, I had decided at the last minute to bring my keys, so we were able to drive back and get into our apartment.
- Kody also decided before we left that instead of taking the tollways back to Bourbonnais, we were going to take other roads that MapQuest directed us to, allowing us to have a nice tour of about every single Chicago suburb there is (not really, but it sure felt like it!) It was only supposed to take us an extra 15 minutes, but the bus the athletes took beat us back to Bourbonnais. :(

Here are some pics of the weekend!


Kody doing what he does best: cheering the team on


The mile hill at the beginning of the race



Me and my husband :) I was very cold...