We're spending the weekend together in Washington, DC.
The weather is great -- warm and humid but not too hot. Yesterday we went for a long hike from Riverbend Park to Great Falls Park. We walked for 135 minutes. In the evening with had dinner at Cafe Belga, great as always.
I went for my 6 mile run today. My abdomen started hurting within a few minutes, and the pain didn't disappear until 60 minutes later. The last 5 minutes or so where fine. I ate a banana before the run, perhaps that did it? Good run nevertheless.
Went for a ride on Saturday. I was pretty nervous for the World Cup final and it helped relax me. Saw a kid in an orange T-shirt on his bike, participating in the Durham bike ride that passed me.
Last week Rome, Italy, then Washington, DC and now Montreal, Canada... Sasha is traveling quite a lot. She is presenting her paper at a conference there tomorrow.
Sunday morning she'll take an early flight back to DC to get ready for the big game! I'll drive up on Sunday morning. Things on my other website are absolutely crazy -- so many new visitors, all looking for a place to watch the final. A lot of fun.
Yesterday I ran for the first time in a week. In an effort to keep up, and since I probably won't run Tuesday and Wednesday, I ran my standard course again today. It's pretty rare that I run two days in a row.
Sasha has my watch, so no time, and that is fine. It'll be a week or two before I'm back into shape for running in this weather.
The heat didn't bother me today (even though it's very hot), but the hills still do. Crazy, really need to get back into it.
Yesterday was Fourth of July, and we spent a nice evening at the American Tobacco Campus.
The weather was great, and we listened to several good bands, drinking 'mate', an Urugayan drink, and 'locopops', a local Durham icecream. Around 9.30 pm there was fireworks in the Durham Bulls stadium.
Sasha and her parents are in Rome, Italy, exploring the city together.
Sasha was invited to present her paper at a conference last week, and she flew to Rome on Tuesday. Friday evening after the conference Milan and Nadia arrived from Bulgaria in Rome and they're having a great time together.
It's the first time in Rome for all of them so there is a lot to see; for example they were all day in the Vatican yesterday. Sasha is flying back to Washington tomorrow.
I'm back home in Durham after a fun weekend in DC. We did some shopping in the morning and had a late lunch together in Sasha's house.
I left early this morning for DC, and I just arrived at Dulles Airport where I'll pick up Sasha. I'm early -- her flight will arrive in an hour.
Yesterday was Fourth of July, and we spent a nice evening at the American Tobacco Campus. 
