The day finally arrived. Months of planning and preparing (mostly for Tanya) and it all came down to one insane day. Rob took Tanya down to the start around 430 am. She started the swim at 7. As soon as she started Rob headed back to the aparment to get us. The kids made awesome support t-shirts. On the back of each shirt it said Team Sharp. Each kid decorated their own shirt. Rob and I had shirts too. It was fun to have a project to work on with the kids and have a secret from Tanya. It was so much fun to watch the kids keep the secret. Tally didn't understand the concept really well and has been asking me for weeks if it is time to tell her yet. I was a bit surprised that she managed to keep the secret. I also had NZ temporary tatoos for the kids. We all got at least three. It was really fun. Lots of people commented on how cool the shirts were. It made me really happy that people noticed. Tanyanseemed to really like them. I am so glad that the kids had the idea and followed through it.
We first saw Tanya on the bike. The kids were waving their NZ flags, ringing cow bells and cheering for everyone. We had just said that we needed to start looking out for Tanya as she shot past us. Then we headed into town. We had a bit of a wander before getting some smoothies. After some more wandering we had an earlyish lunchnat the Kona Inn. Then we wandered down some more and found an awesome spot to watch the run. We located ourselves near a beach and restraunts rightnon thenrun course. It was ideal because there were trees for shade/climbing, bathrooms nearby, a nice sea breeze, and a six year old from England named Cameron who Indigo and Tally are in love with. Cameron was really nice. He is an only child and was very excited to have some other kids to play with. He helped keep our whole crew happy. We stayed there for most of the race. We got to see Tanya go by twice before watching her finish. We were able to get a space right next to the finish line. We were all able to see her finish! She was so focused on the finish line that she saw didn't see
She did a great job. Her time was 10:43 which was quicker than expected. It is seriously impressive. She managed a quick time despite a bike crash! She also once again proved her toughness by continuing the race while in pain and how she has behaved after. Despite some probably pretty uncomfortable scrapes she hasn't complained.
One of my favorite things about the day was meeting a girl named Anna who is studying photo journlism at the Univerity of Nations. She saw us early in the day and took photos of the kids throughout the day. She saw us in the morning and took pictures of thenkids shirts. Later we met up again and she took photos of us cheering for Tanya. She also saw us at the finish and took some family photos. Anna was so nice and she was great with the kids. She is suppose to e-mail us some of the photos. Hopefully I will be able to post some.
I typically try to lable my photos but the app is pretty basic and won't let me so I will have to do it later.
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