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Color Me Bob

July 29, 2012 on 3:35 pm | In Family | 38 Comments

Whew! I hope you’ve had a good weekend. We’ve had a great weekend here in ThimbleannaLand. Yesterday we did The Color Run. It was Super Duper FUN!

Here’s the motley crew before the race. Looking all clean, happy and innocent. Ignorance is Bliss.

It was a perfect weather day. A little cloudy and breezy and not too hot. Here’s a shot about 2/3rds of the way through the run, looking into Indianapolis. You can see how crowded the run was. The red flags on the bridge are where they had a color station. Every kilometer, they had people positioned to spray color on you as you ran by. See the dust cloud? It was dusty at those color stations!

Then, at the end of the race, everyone throws their color packet into the air. Here’s SweetiePie giving her packet a toss.

And here’s the crowd. SweetiePie took this picture — my shots of the final blowout didn’t turn out — (so sad!)

It’s a big, fun, messy business.

Here’s the aftermath. Everyone is still really happy, but no longer clean.

As usual, CrazyBIL kept us entertained.

He’s such a goofball.

There were 10,000 runners. The race was amazingly well organized. They had water for everyone at the half-way point and again at the end. I tried to make a water fountain like CrazyBIL, but I ended up with water all down the front of me.

If you ever get the chance to do the Color Run, you should do it. You don’t even have to run — I was amazed at the number of people who walked. We all ran, some WAY faster than others LOL. And, sadly, TheFirstChild wasn’t able to run with us, but he photo-bombed us instead. That’s my boy!

Now, I’m off to finish a birthday cake for BigDaddy. (Btw, we named our team Color Me Bob — in honor of BigDaddy. He’s the original runner in our family and today is his 81st birthday.) Happy Birthday BigDaddy!!!
XOXO,
Anna

38 Comments

I’ve never heard of a colour run but it looks awesome and so much fun… pity I can barely walk at the minute never mind run..Happy Birthday BigDaddy :-)

Comment by peri — July 29, 2012 #
Well, that’s very very impressive but I don’t think I would like to get that messy… That’s my only reason for not running…

Comment by Isabelle — July 29, 2012 #
Well it looks like it was fun and messy too. Is it a run for fun? Or for a charity?

Happy Birthday to Daddy Bob!

Comment by Jody — July 29, 2012 #
Wow, what an adventure!

I’ve never heard of a Color Run before, but it sure looks like a lot of fun.

Comment by Nancy — July 29, 2012 #
That looks like so much fun!!! So much more fun than my usual run……don’t think we have anything like it in the UK – perhaps we need to instigate the first one! I know we have a mud run…..which is mostly like an assault course but does require swimming through mud!

Comment by Di — July 29, 2012 #
I LOVE all your pictures…looks like the day was so much and so colorful too!!!! Great post :-)!

Comment by Cheryl — July 29, 2012 #
give Big Daddy a big birthday hug from Auntia and me!

your family has so much fun – do you know how incredibly awesome you all are?!?

Comment by dianne — July 29, 2012 #
Wow, looks like so much fun, I’ve never heard of this before. Good for you guys. A big happy birthday to Big Daddy :)

Comment by Judy — July 29, 2012 #
Very cool – i watched a show on India where they have a festival like this, looks like you all had a blast!

Comment by Nicole — July 29, 2012 #
Wow. Glad you had fun. That’s way more color than I want on me though. :)

Comment by Elaine/MuddlingThrough — July 29, 2012 #
Looks like a ton of fun! Neat!

Comment by Stephanie in MI — July 29, 2012 #
In Spanish Fork they have the festival of colors at the Krishna Temple. But not running. I think I might have a bit of trouble breathing. Good for all of you that you actually made a race of it.

Comment by Bonnie — July 30, 2012 #
I’ver never seen anything like this – it looks like a whole lot of fun!!
A very happy birthday to BigDaddy!!

Comment by frayedattheedge — July 30, 2012 #
Happy birthday wishes to your Dad! Well done to all on the run…er walk….er run!

Comment by Meredithe — July 30, 2012 #
I haven’t heard of a color run either but it looks like a real scream.

Comment by Janet — July 30, 2012 #
That looks like soooo much fun!! Color is definitely a quilter’s thing, who knew you could work it into running! A great time!

Comment by Jackie — July 30, 2012 #
That looked like a lot of fun! Please tell BigDaddy to have a wonderful birthday xoxo

Comment by Jewels — July 30, 2012 #
What a blast!!!! this looks like such a fun time. I love everything about it, especially the spirit of the color me bob team!
I would totally do this one.
Have a great week

Comment by barb — July 30, 2012 #
Wow, that looks like a lot of fun. How far was the run/walk?

Comment by Debbe — July 30, 2012 #
You are a wild one …haha, my daughter ran this a couple weeks ago in Philly!!

Comment by Shawn — July 30, 2012 #
What FUN!! Happy Birthday BigDaddy!!

Comment by Jen — July 30, 2012 #
From a non-exerciser this looks like so much fun.

Comment by nanette — July 30, 2012 #
I have heard about the race, in fact, it was just in Columbus a couple weeks ago. I hadn’t heard if it was fun or not-your pictures look like it was lots of fun! :) I love the photos-and the fact that your family did it together! What fun!

Comment by Jennifer Henson — July 30, 2012 #
I’ve never heard of that race…but boy does it look like it was fun for all!

And I don’t know how I missed the post with the liner for your bike basket…so adorable!

Comment by Sherri — July 30, 2012 #
What fun! Personally, I think you’re also a goofball! ;o) Love, love love you sense of humour! Thanks for sharing! Cheers!

Comment by Carole — July 31, 2012 #
wonderful fun….

Comment by Dotty Red — July 31, 2012 #
Oh my. That looks like SO. MUCH. FUN!!

No matter how old we get, there’s just something great about getting messy! I love all the smiling faces ~ seriously, everybody looks like they had an absolute blast! Thank you for sharing… I’m off to find out if there is a Color Run in Phoenix! :)

Comment by Carrie — July 31, 2012 #
how funny! ;p

Comment by ina — July 31, 2012 #
Oh boy! My daughter and a few of her college chums have graciously invited me to run this race with them in October. W

Comment by Amy — July 31, 2012 #
Oops. Fat fingers on a Kindle aside, we’ll be running the race in Washington DC. I am really looking forward to it!

Comment by Amy — July 31, 2012 #
Wow, that looks like so much fun and I can just imagine you enjoying it!!! How are you????

Comment by Jan — August 2, 2012 #
OHMY you are the colorful one. What a mess but a pretty mess.

Comment by Sharon Yeager — August 2, 2012 #
What a HOOT – and of course I’m loving the name of the team – how can you not love Bob (Mr. Farmhouse). Did you find paint in places you wouldn’t have thought of lol. You go girl – I’ll hand ya a drink of water on the sidelines lol

Hugs

Comment by karen — August 3, 2012 #
Did you bring any fabric with you…those colours might have stained the fabric and made for some interesting impromptu dyeing :o)

Comment by Sew Create It - Jane — August 5, 2012 #
Yea, looks like fun. A friend of mine did it too. Did you know there is a newish fabric place on Mass Ave? It is called Crimson Tate. you should check her out. I thought of you when I saw her post about having the Ghastley’s fabric :)

Comment by Rachel F — August 5, 2012 #
That looks like so much fun! And a very Happy Birthday to your dad, I’m sure he was very proud! :)

Comment by Doni — August 5, 2012 #
Such fun! And even better as a family unit.

Comment by Mary ann — August 6, 2012 #
oh my!!!

that is brilliant. Fab…

I want to do the colour run too…

Comment by monica — August 9, 2012 #