New personal record! 

Time	2:06:47

It's official, I've ran my fastest half marathon ever, yeah!!!  My sister was a great motivator, she is so speedy!  The Monster Dash in St Paul was a blast.  We left my home at 5 a.m. on Saturday and made a quick stop at Wal-Mart on our way to pick up supplies to make handcuffs.  Our timing was going perfectly and according to our GPS we would be there at about 7:30 a.m. which would have been perfect.  We were within ten miles of our exit for the run when the traffic came to a screeching halt.  We literally crawled along in traffic for an hour!!!  As we approached the off ramp, people were getting out of their cars and running towards the St. Paul Cathedral.  Our GPS was telling us to turn right towards the ramps for parking, but we decided to take the unoccupied left lane to a Sears parking lot and run for it.  We were about 10 minutes late, made a quick stop at the portapotties and ran for the start.  Overall we were about 15-20 minutes late on the start, but thanks to the timing chip and the crowd of 10,000+ runners, we were not at the very end!  We saw so many great costumes, even Obama and Romney ran together!  My favorite were the two people that ran as aerobics instructors with the thong leotards, too funny!  Cheyenne and I were the two cutest prisoners and got lots of compliments on our sparkly tutu's!  We were both quite concerned about the weather, but the coolness actually worked out perfectly.  We were able to leave behind our hats and gloves in the car and didn't have to bring with our zip up sweatshirts at all.  However, as soon as we crossed the finish line the chills set in very quickly!  At the last mile Cheyenne ran ahead, but didn't see me cross the finish line about a minute behind her. so we got lost in the shuffle of people everywhere and it took us 40 minutes to find each other.  We must have been circling each other because when we finally found each other we talked about different people we had seen and we had watched the same person throw up when they crossed the finish line.  That's okay though, it gave us something to remember.  I am so thankful that my sister went on this endeavor with me and is looking forward to doing another one in the future!