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Brag Thread -- What'd Ya Get?
Ok, here's the thread to "brag" about the cool gear or outdoor recreation stuff you got for the holidays (either as a gift or purchased for yourself thanks to holiday sales).
Me? Not much, but that was by choice since with the baby due April 1st I told Justin and family that stuff off our baby registries was absolutely fair game for Christmas and any birthday purchases for me (Dec. 28th).
Justin did get me one of those front-load baby carriers (baby can face inward, when an infant, and outward as they grow) so both of us can carry Sprout on short jaunts to do some walking at area parks or around the neighborhood and so forth. (BTW, we do have a real name picked out for Sprout, but we're keeping it a surprise... just in case we look into her little eyes when she's born and are inspired to give her a different name.)
I gave Justin a Garmin Forerunner 305 with heart rate monitor, since he's gotten hooked on having the heart rate data from his cycling GPS and wanted that same capability with a hiking and walking GPS. (The 305 is great for biking too, it's just that Justin prefers his present Garmin unit for cycling... sorry, I'm blanking on the model number at the moment.)
After the baby's born and I'm getting back to my pre-pregnancy weight, we'll get me fitted for a road bike and I'll be able to slowly start working up to Justin's endurance and distance capabilities on road cycling. I'm still a mountain biker at heart, but I need to get a better fitting mountain bike, also. (May sell mine at some point, in which case I'll offer it up here for first dibs for folks.... we're months away from that though. I need to wait 'til I'm not carrying around a baby inside to get properly fitted on the bike I have and see if our favorite bike shop can't work a better handlebar/stem arrangement that doesn't cause numbness and pain in my wrist, elbow and shoulders.
Not a Christmas or birthday gift, but our Texas State Parks Pass expires in April 2007 and we'll be renewing them then... even though our baby will be a newborn we look forward to taking her out for some "stimulus and input" in the great outdoors starting very early.
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