Road Trip Weekend!

Halloween is nowhere near as big of an event in Australia as it is in North America.  Rather than stay home, Ben, Anna and I took off to go to Penrith (close to Sydney) for an even called Running Scared.

This is a nighttime run of 8km that boasts 20 obstacles, zombies and, AND a glow in the dark medal!

Anna and I have hopped in a car for less!

 First off was a stop at the mall.  Since it was Halloween I'd like to show you what Australians think is a "pumpkin".  That's right, a butternut pumpkin!

The race was awesome. We took exactly 0 photos as Anna and I open to run it and smash all of the obstacles.  We had lots of stuff to crawl over, under and through.  We got chased by zombies, clowns and all sorts of this that go bump in the night.  We got to do a SLIP N SLIDE!!!  This thing was huge!!  It ran down a hill and was covered in water and baby shampoo.  We each took a huge run at it and then launched down it.  Well worth the 10 minute wait for our turn.

At one point Ben and his crew were joined by a runner who chatted them up for a few minutes...only to have a zombie full on tackle her mid-stride!  She was one of them!!!

There was an awesome double set of Monkey bars that we both nailed. We got to climb over a shipping container, crawl under heavy ropes, run away from clowns on unicorns unicycles.  We got to traverse a waterway in an inner tube and more!

We grabbed hot showers at the venue (so awesome) and were home (to our accommodation) by 11:30pm.

It's been a pretty amazing year of travelling around this country, sharing varying accommodation with Anna and picking my clothes up off of assorted lawns.