I got up at 0900 this morning and was on the track by 0915. Two and a quarter miles in thirty minutes even. I'm feeling better about this running every day. I'm not near ready to commit yet, but I'm giving more and more consideration to running the Marine Corps Marathon this year instead of next. Sign-ups aren't for a few months, which will be enough time for me to build up to 10+ mile runs, so I can decide then. I've made a lot of progress in the three weeks since I started running, but I want to make sure that I'll be able to continue that progress when the distances get longer.
After my run, I headed up to Deck Ten and got a waffle. I walked around a bit looking for
We headed back to the stateroom for a little bit and
After the dance lesson, we headed back to the stateroom to wait for them to call us to clear immigration and border patrol (since we were coming back to Key West). After a little bit, we joined up with everyone else and headed up to Deck Ten to wait for them to call us. Once we were called, we headed down to Deck Five and let people swipe our key cards, look at our passports, and punch the passports with a special punch to indicate that we've cleared immigration. It was pretty quick and smooth.
Then we headed ashore and kicked around in Key West for a few hours. We ended up picking up a few geocaches -- a virtual and a webcam (thanks to
Then, it was time to get back on the ship. We had barely settled into our stateroom when
After the show, I decided to hunker down to bed -- busy day at sea tomorrow, you know! Just as I stared writing this, I heard
It's time for bed. Maybe I'll run for an hour tomorrow.
Looks like that's all I wrote while on vacation. Maybe I'll get around to a re-cap of the last couple of days -- getting off the ship, hanging out in Charleston, etc. Probably not, though -- I'm so behind.