Marathon Monday

Happy Patriots Day to our fellow Massachusetts residents!  Patriots Day happens to also be the day that the annual Boston Marathon is held.  For the third year in a row, we walked down to cheer on the runners.  It is always so exciting and inspiring and there are always a few crazy costumed characters to keep things interesting.  How did the guy in the full gorilla costume make it the whole 26.2 miles??

Willow's sign says "Go Runners!!!" and has drawings of the wheelchair athletes who we watched leave the starting line on television before we headed down to watch them roll by.

We watched from the 8 mile mark.  Here are the volunteers getting the water station ready.

Here they come!

Masses of runners, as far as the eye can see, for hours.  Amazing!