Friendsgiving 9:10 PM

Thanksgiving was a fun time for me and Tamanna.  We had a friends giving before real thanksgiving since none of us friends were going to be in Provo for the actual holiday.  The theme was obviously pilgrim and indians.  everyone brought their own dish and it was amazing how much food we had and all the food was actually really good.  I have such good domestic friends who know how to cook such good food!

Top of Utah Marathon 4:41 PM

I’m not gonna lie when Tamanna said she was going run a marathon I got a little jealous and had the desire to run one too, but I haven’t yet and I’m not really training for one but I hope to run one soon.  The Top of Utah Marathon was Tamanna’s first Marathon and she ran it very well.  She started up in Blacksmith Fork Canyon and continued downhill for 12 miles until she left the canyon and started the slight uphill towards Logan, Utah.  I met her at the 18 mile marker and biked along side of her to give her support.

 

She was smiling when I first saw her and she seemed to be doing really well.  Then as we kept moving towards the 20-mile mark her smile slowly changed into a face that was very straight and focused.  She was telling me how hard this run had become and asked if I would run with her, so I biked ahead locked my bike to a bench and put my running shoes on.  We ran the last 6.2 miles together and whatever time goals she had were thrown away.  I soon learned she would be happy just finishing instead of trying to finish under a certain time. 

Tamanna finally found herself at the finish line with a time of 4 hours and 25 minutes.  Which to me looks like a perfect time to start a series of marathons.  Tamanna told me that she wants to run 50 marathons by the time she turns 50.  I like the idea and I hope to join her on as many of those marathons as I can!

Red Rock Relay 2010 4:09 PM

So this is relay is turning into an annual event.  If you remember last year right after I got back from India, Team Gazelle shredded this course to get 3rd out of 60 teams.  This year Team Gazelle was going back to the relay not with determination to get 1st but with the determination to get the Team Spirit Award.  The team consisted of most of the same team members except we had a few replacements this year.

we showed up in the Black Sabbath again, (a huge mercedes 12 passenger van that the Roney’s let us borrow!!) and we started whooping and hollerin at the starting line. 

the Red Rock Relay is 180 miles of beautiful southern Utah scenery that takes place over two days and has enough energy to completely drain a team of 12 Gazelles.

We ended up finishing in 25 hours and 9 minutes, not in first place but in 5th place overall out of 200 teams.  the whole team did a really good job and I don’t think there was another team that was crazier then we were.  Mr. RedRock seemed to agree because Team Gazelle was the winner of the 2010 Team Spirit Award!!!!

the Greens at Waikoloa 3:09 PM

Tamanna and I spent our honeymoon on the big island of Hawaii.  We stayed in a friends house, so we had our own house, our own car, our own kayak, and our own snorkel equipment.  I don’t think we could have had a better getaway for our honeymoon.  We spent two weeks bummin the beaches, looking for turtles and dolphins, and eating exquisite food.  Thanks so much for making this happen.

Wedding Day 1:48 PM

Ok today is actually the 7th of November but there has been a lot going on lately in my life so I’m going to try to catch up.  On the 13th of August I got married to the love of my life, Tamanna Kalra.  It seriously was the best day of my life.  Tamanna and I decided that we had the best wedding day ever and there was not one thing that we would have changed.  We had our wedding in the Salt Lake Temple and our Reception at an indoor garden up in Sandy, Utah called Le Jardin (the Garden).  we had a great time and here are some epic pictures from the wedding day.

more pictures are available here:

Wedding	Reception

Cape Lookout 11:44 PM

So Jeffrey Costello gave me a perfect opportunity to road trip down to Portland.  He set a goal this summer to go from the Canadian border to the Mexico border on hike bike.  Check out his blog if you want.  But his dreams were crushed when out buddy Dave cut his hand open the night before the big day.   So after a week of helping Dave through surgery, Jeff was ready to start his trip solo down the coast.  And since he had no one to start his trip with I volunteered quickly to help him out since deep down in my heart I always wanted to do this tour with them.  So I drove him out to the coastal town of Netarts, Oregon from Seattle on a Friday night.  It was late when we got in so we just pulled into a park and set up camp.  In the morning we found out that the park we camped in was a public park that was on the outskirts of a neighborhood.  But it really was a great camping spot seriously 100 meters from the ocean.

In the morning we found a small little café called the Schooner where we at breakfast, it was a really cool place:

After some of the best breakfast I have ever had we decided to look at Jeff’s ride for the day and it looked like he had three major capes to battle.  I volunteered to take him to the top of the first cape, Cape Lookout which was the hill of them all and let him get a good start at the top of the hill.  So we drove there and he got packed and took off:

Little did I know I would find a trailhead there with one of the best 5 mile trails I have ever done:

It was such a cool trail and a beautiful day to do it.  At the point of the cape I was able to get past the cliff ropes and look down and see 10+ sea lions and other cool things:

It was a successful day!

Redmond 9:55 PM

Redmond, Washington is my new home for the summer.  It’s funny that the last couple of summers of my life have been very random.  Alaska, Benin, Alaska, Alaska, India, Europe, India again, and Washington.  I really feel like i couldn’t live a better life.  I’ve been richly blessed in my life and i can’t figure out why.  I’ve travelled to a lot of really cool places and i have met the most beautiful and smart girl you'll ever meet and now I’m sitting in a house in Redmond working for Microsoft.  I don’t think there is any room to complain about any bad things.  

Dates are getting more solidified for me and Tamanna and our wedding.  I'm gonna post this only so that people can see that we are getting married but the details are still in limbo.  Actually most of them are set just some of them could change.  Like the place for example in the last three weeks we have changed from Alaska, to Hong Kong, to California, to Utah.  Our present plans tell everyone that we are getting married on the 13th of August in SLC.  The reception will be the same day and then for a honeymoon!!!

Other than that life is going well.  Jeff and Dave are meeting me in Seattle next week and I’m gonna do part of their Border to Border adventure with them for Memorial Weekend.  How could it get any better, biking, running, working, money and must i mention again my incredibly hot fiancé! haha

ok well this is just a small post today so enjoy the pictures