Day 79

So tomorrow we enter into our 7th state out of 8. That's right, New Mexico is done-zo. I'm pretty excited to know that we are finished with another state! Entering into Arizona also marks the end of our most difficult state. We averaged about 30 miles per day throughout this state...many times going much higher than that! Only a handful of times did we run in the low 20's...and Arizona, I believe, will prove to be much easier as we will average 25 miles per day in the 23 days it will take us to get through it.

I also want to appologize quickly for the blog tonight being so late! I came down about an hour and a half ago and there were 2 girls on the only computer in the hotel. Since then I have been on the phone with Claire...and I have periodically come down to check to see if they were gone...and they haven't been, until now! So here i sit at 9:30 Rocky mountain time typing the blog.

Speaking of Rocky Mountain time...tomorrow we don't "officially" cross into pacific Time, but since Arizona does not follow Daylight Savings Time...our clocks will be running on Pacific Time.

Today was a day off from running!! So today we woke up at about 8:30 and made our way to the continental breakfast. Durkin and I heated up a glazed donut in the microwave and ate some warm donuts...they were delicious! We finished our breakfast and we went back to the room...where we proceeded to do NOTHING for the rest of the day except lay on our beds and watch movies all day! We first watched The Truman Show starring Jim Carrey. In this movie Jim plays Truman Burbank is a man whose life is a nonstop TV show. Truman doesn't realize that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator, that folks living and working there are Hollywood actors, that even his incessantly bubbly wife is a contract player. Gradually, Truman gets wise. And what he does about his discovery will have you laughing, crying and cheering.

We also watched Blank Check!!! This movie was a children's movie...and one movie I vividly remember watching as a kid years ago! The movie is about a kid who by accident, the 12-year-old Preston is given a blank check and when he fills in $1,000,000 - he is able to get it! He is having fun spending the money, but the gangsters who owned it want it back... We had a lot of fun watching this movie. By the time we watched these 2 movies we were hungry and it was almost 4 o clock. We went over and did some laundry next door and got some dinner at Sonic. We brought it back to the hotel and from there...I took a nap and watched a really interesting show on the history Channel about the Earth and its history from 4.5 billion years ago. i love programs like that...so I was really interested. So..really we didn't do anything today except lounge around and watch television and we didn't even think about running today!

So tomorrow we will get on the road at about 8am. We will be heading to Window Rock. i am excited to enter into Arizona. I cannot wait. all in all, this day off was very needed after our difficult days in New Mexico. I think all 3 of us will feel good as we hit the road tomorrow morning. I'm sorry this blog wasn't more interesting...because we really didn't do much today. I'm sure tomorrow we will have more stories to tell you. Thanks for reading...37 days left. i can't believe it. GOODNIGHT!!

Ken