Trip to Boston!

I know this blog is about the Guarino family, and most often the Guarino children, but I was able to share an awesome experience with a close member of my "family" from Notre Dame recently. A couple of weekends ago my friend Kelly ran the Boston Marathon in an incredible time and I was lucky enough to be there to see it! Stef, my dear friend and roommate in Baltimore, lives in Boston so the weekend was doubly special!! Thanks to Stef for putting me up, showing me around, and to Kelly for running like the wind!! What a special trip...
Running shoes in the flower boxes in Beacon Hill.

The gratuitous self portrait...

After a fabulous dinner in the North End. You'd never know she was carbo-loading!

Ann's (Kelly's running friend) husband and Kelly's mom along the marathon route. Cheering on their girls!

Stef's boyfriend Jim was SO GREAT in mapping out a route for us to maximize our sightings of Kelly and Ann. The Blackberry's and iPhones were going nuts as we tracked their progress!

Here they come!! Going strong at mile 22 just after Heartbreak Hill!


Off they go to the finish line!