Another runner was having her picture taken with her bib and I thought that seemed like a great idea. It was then that I realized my camera was in our bags- the bags we had dropped off before heading to the expo. Now I can look back and laugh, but at that moment not having a camera felt monumentally unfortunate. I was in Boston for the first time, for the Boston Marathon, and I had no camera to document my experiences! After a minor freak-out (on my part) we decided to head back to the apartment to get our digital camera since a disposable camera that we could acquire at a drug store across the street would not be reliable; the last thing I wanted was to take pictures and have them all come out fuzzy, out of focus, or too dark.

 

We made the mile and a half round trip in good time and, digital camera in hand, headed back into the expo. Now that I had the camera I wanted to take as many pictures as possible so I turned it on. Well, I tried to turn it on. After multiple pushes, prods, and pokes at the power button it was evident something was wrong with the camera. Freak out #2 was not as long as freak out #1 and, once I composed myself, we headed over to the drug store to get a disposable camera since, after all, fuzzy, out of focus, dark pictures would be better than nothing.

Now that I had a camera we could check out the rest of the expo. We stopped by the Team Hoyt booth so I could meet the people I had been emailing back and forth with for months and so I could pick up my bag of items I would need for our team dinner later that night. Then we headed over to the Spira booth- Spira was generous enough to donate a pair of shoes to every Team Hoyt charity runner. We also went to the Timex booth because a friend of ours was working there with her sister. We socialized with her the majority of the time we were at the expo since neither my boyfriend nor I really get into hitting up every booth at expos.

 

Monday I will share everything that happened between the expo and our Team Hoyt dinner. Have a great weekend and don't forget to visit www.firstgiving.com/bostonmarathon2009!