Bodock Festival 2009

August 14, 2009---Rick ran in the Bodock Twilight 5K at the Pontotoc Bodock Festival. We arrived early enough to browse many of the vendor tents and get dinner at Red Rooster before the run started. The Bergerons drove over from Oxford to watch Daddy Rick strut his stuff. Grandmother, AJ, Emily, and Kye met us for dinner. Jackson had no interest in watching the race so I swapped AJ for him. AvaJo was eager to see her Uncle Rick anyway. She had called him twice earlier in the day just to talk.




We watched the beginning of the race just outside of Red Rooster but walked down to the courthouse to wait for the runners to return. AJ picked her spot and watched the runners come in.

There were 348 participants but only 333 finished the race. It is a tough race...heat, steep hills, and starts at 8:00 pm. The last mile of the race is all uphill. Every year there are several people who finish the race and immediately get sick. Rick (in the grey shirt) finished in 27 minutes 10 seconds. It wasn't his best time but it wasn't his worst either. He didn't really train for it either. Next year he'll have a better finish time.

By the end of race Molly was getting tired and a little fussy...

...but so were many others. I just don't have pictures of them. So, we had to say goodbye to the Bergerons for the evening.

We met up with Grandmother, Jackson, Aunt Sherry, Madison, Russell, Trey, Sheryl, Jonah, James, Hannah, a guy friend of Hannah's on the court square where a majority of Pontotoc County had come to watch a bad Elvis impersonator.

There had to have been a couple hundred people on the square...both young and old and everything in between...all waiting for the street dance to begin. A few people even rushed the stage in the hopes of touching the fake Elvis's hand or scarf. It was quite funny.

Even though we were only in Pontotoc for a few hours, it was good to see family and friends we haven't seen in a while, some since we moved 10 months ago. I must admit that I almost teared up a time or two. I miss the quaintness of Pontotoc, our church, and the Wellness Center too. For a town that I vowed to never like, I sure do miss it!!