Amsterdam Marathon

April, October, July, January-March are slowly becoming the best months of my year.  I'm guaranteed excessive amounts of work but also guaranteed tons of fun.  Work hard, play hard....

October was no exception to the rule.  Three of my co-workers signed up for various lengths of runs in Amsterdam for a weekend and a few of us decided to stay the weekend to support them.  Saturday was a lazy day of relaxing, site seeing and enjoying the Hague on a quiet day:

 Me with the girl and the pearl earring at the Mauritshuis

 The girl in all her glory - much like Mona, what is she thinking?

Nice stroll back to the hotel for drinks before dinner

Then on Sunday, it was off to watch the marathon, half marathon and 8K.  I've never seen a Marathon, so the whole thing was fascinating.  We had prime spots in Vondelpark, which is just beautiful in the fall and the weather was ok most of the day.  My favourite part was seeing the winners run by and watching some other people you would never think could run a marathon, who not only did it, but did it well.

My least favourite part was standing in the rain waiting for my marathon coworker to go by and missing him twice.  Not cool!  I have no idea how we missed him, but 3 pairs of eyes and 4 hours of waiting.......for nothing.

But we did see the 8ker and the half marathoner, so that was great!  After that, it was off for a drink with the marathon coworker and back to the Hague for a long week at work.  Thankfully, I didn't have to recover from a Marathon!  Just the 4 hours of watching one....