Tough Mudder? Not Nearly Tough Enough.

Saturday we took the girls to stay in Frederick, MD for the night so that my hubby, Mike, could participate in the  Tough Mudder Mid-Atlantic event with some of his co-workers. If you haven't heard of this event it is a grueling 10+ mile race filled with crazy obstacles like swimming in ice water, running through fire, army crawling through mud under barbed wire, you know...that sort of thing.

We had dinner Saturday night with his fellow co-workers and their significant others at the Macaroni Grill just down the street from our hotel. We then headed back to the hotel to get a good night sleep before the race. Unfortunately, we woke up to an onslaught of texts and emails telling us that the race had been canceled. I felt awful for Mike because I know how excited he was but I also felt relief from having to take my 2 year old and 2 month old daughters to this all day event. Apparently, it took some of the racers from the day before hours just to go half of a mile. That paired with sitting out in the sun for 5 or more hours and then having to fight our way back home through the traffic wasn't sounding very appealing.

The next morning we met up for breakfast with the rest of the crew and then we parted ways. Instead of heading home, we chose to go shopping at the nearby outlet mall. I scored some great sweaters from JCrew while we were there but oddly enough I think my husband had better luck and as always...so did my girls.

 It was kind of an expensive way of going out to dinner with friends but, all in all, it turned out to be a nice weekend away.