My Russian friend, Anna!

When she last visited the US in 2003, she said that she would be back. I went to Russia in 2002, 2004 & 2006 but she wasn’t able to return until this past May (& I only saw her for 2 days.)

She said she’d be back to see the US Open. I thought she was joking.

Nope, she returned to NYC last Friday and went to the US Open on Sat. & Sun.

I couldn’t afford to go to the semi finals at the US Open but said that I would take a day off and go to NYC to see her.

That was yesterday. 9-11 in NYC (What was I thinking?)

Anyway, I took the Megabus to NYC (only $5!!)

We met at Grand Central and took the Metro North to the Botanical Gardens.

She was agreeable and since I love flowers and anything French, this was perfect.

Monet is my favorite and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I think she did too.

The waterlilies were great…I won’t bore you with the tons of photos I took.  Here’s just two:

 

We spent so much time chatting over lunch that we never got to the paintings.

Hopefully she will come visit me this weekend.

So I biked on Sunday, played tennis on Monday and walked on Tuesday…3 days without running!!!

Tomorrow I hope to drag myself 3 miles 🙂

Happy Running! Am I the only one that has life getting in the way of running?