Readjusting To The Heat

Last weekend we were at 8000+' above sea level, with frost on our camp stove and hot water bottles in our sleeping bags. This last week we were at 100+°F almost everyday, and 110°F on Sat/Sun. Quite a big difference. It's REALLY easy to readjust to the those temps when your AC goes out! We didn't have AC Fri, Sat, or Sun and FINALLY our AC was fixed Monday morning. To beat those temps we made sure to do plenty of indoor activities.
Thursday was my birthday, and turns out it was also Sasha's cousin Xiomara's (z-o-mara) birthday (who just moved to PHX last week). I had an awesome birthday! Mara brought me Jimmy Johns and we had a nice picnic outside. We meet Sasha and Xiomara out at our favorite Indian restaurant, Delhi Palace, for some awesome food and also getting to meet Xiomara. We hit up MoJo for some frozen yogurt. Rohan was a hyper kid (a glimpse to the future I'm sure), climbing on everything, but he was well behaved for the most part. That kid loves his FroYo! Aside from the $600 brake repair on the RAV, it was a great birthday...:)
Friday we took it easy and relaxed a little with some friends. We met up with Sasha, Xio, Will, Emily, and Lindsey for the PHX First Friday art walk. It was really cool to see a "starving artist" section of town, especially since we normally wouldn't be wondering that section of town at night! We saw some cool (and some weird) art, but it was a lot of fun to get out. We headed to Rose & Crown afterwards for some refreshments. Rohan was being such a ham too. He kept calling Sasha's phone while he was playing with Mara's phone, and he also kept trying to wink, which he essentially just squints both eyes. It's pretty funny.
Saturday we met up with Sasha and Xiomara at AZR and Xiomara got her into to climbing. For being afraid of heights she did really good. She just kept climbing, and that's the best thing you can do! Afterwards we went back to our place for some Chicken Biryani and Fat Tire. Afterwards they hit up a concert and Mara and I took Rohan to a park to get some fresh (hot) air. We went to a couple places afterwards with AC or mister systems to stay cool.
Sunday we beat the heat of our non-AC apartment by heading over to Greg & Nico's. They just got back from an AMAZING trip to Europe and we got to sit and look through their photos. It looks like they had a BLAST. We had some great BBQ pork and sides (never a shortage of food!) and then hit the pool. Rohan is getting his sea legs and it walking in shallow water pretty good. He loves to throw stuff in the water, and hopefully he doesn't translate that over to throwing things in the toilet!
We have reevaluated our running schedule too. Since the heat is so friggin' oppressive, we've decided to cut back on our longer runs (no more 11 mile runs at 11pm!). Instead we are going to focus on shorter runs of 4-5 miles 3-4 times a week and work in some Yoga our friend Jeanette teaches at AZR (free for us). It will hopefully help supplement our longer runs and also give us a little break from hard core running until the heat cuts back a little or we get more accustomed to the heat. After that we are going to start training for the PF Chang's Marathon in January!
We are looking forward to a better night's sleep with our AC back!
Enjoy the pics from this last week/weekend!


Rohan Fighting Sleep At Wal-Mart:


Mara Snuck Up On Rohan Read To Himself:


Rohan Being A Goofball: