Rock and Roll moving experience

abe ran the rock and roll on sunday. he finished in just under 4 1/2 hours. he was up at 4 am to get to the race on time (and ended up with too much time before the race) and you could tell he was exhausted when he ran past. i had initially planned to see abe at about the 13 mile mark than to go over to the MCRD (military base) to see abe cross the finish but my parents did not show up on time (they say its a long story and i imagine they were fighting so i didn't ask) and we barely missed abe by what we think was 10 minutes so we rushed over to mile 18 and waited. we once again thought we missed abe because we saw a particular man dressed as elvis run past, whom we had seen before at the other mile so we were just leaving when my dad said, "ayi esta" and we turned around in time to see abe about to pass us. we did the whole cheer thing and he came over to us and that was fun than we got in the car and decided to go see him a few miles ahead to cheer him on again. the drive to the next location happened to go side-by-side the marathon so we honked at abe as we drove by (he had been walking at this point). at the next location we waited for awhile, and saw that same elvis again (i think he recognized us by this point because he was encouraging us to cheer when he ran past) and we chilled out until we saw abe run past us one last time. He was only a few miles from the end at this point and still looked to be doing all right. i wish i had gotten to see him at the end but that is life and it didn't work out that way. instead we went home after this. my aunt, cousin, and one of their friends went home to and i ended up napping for two hours because i too had been up since 4 to take abe and my parents left for the beach and carl disappeared to pick up abe.
when they got home, and i got up, we ate some IN n Out and relaxed than we went to the bay with my aunt, cousin, and their friend, and my parents to bbq and enjoy the best that california has to offer. it was very beautiful just chilling at the bay and i am glad we had dinner there instead of at someone's house because it showed my family what i would soon be missing.
on Monday we had to pack up our moving container and something that i thought would take about an hour took over five hours and that was with my parents and abe helping. it was not pleasant and we still had to work on it a little after we dropped abe off at the airport than went out for dinner (and got wasted on giant margaritas) with some good friends (mark, caitlin, jenn, kent, brian, tania, and joel, and a friend of kent's). i will miss them .