Having a blast so far!

Hello! Just checking in before I get ready for my 3am wake up time! Crazy!

Thursday: Our flight was just perfect and they announced us on the intercom and explained what we are doing. We got a round of applause from the plane when they said that our group raised over $90K for Leukemia & Lymphoma. Pretty cool!

We got in and headed to the Expo to check in and get our bibs. I promptly donated back to the race in the amount of souveniers I bought....sue me, I am a first time 1/2 marathoner.....I deserve to spend a little on myself! We walked around the expo for about 2 hours and ended up with so much free junk it looked like we had been to the grocery store. Fun!







I am hanging with two captains from our East Valley Team because they are walkers as well so we have gotten to know each other over the course of our training. They are a blast...Mary and Peggy. They give me a hard time because I am "just a baby." I hope I am still going strong when I am their age! We walked around and found a neat Italian place to have dinner. We headed back to our hotel to hit the sack since we had a "fun run" with our teammates at 6:30am the next day.



Friday: We got up and did about a mile of walking before heading to Pikes Place to walk around and shop. We spend most of the day just hanging out around there. The guys at the Fish Market were scaring little kids with this Monk Fish by pulling on something to make it jump up. Poor kids were crying....sad but funny at the same time. I think they were more embarassed than scared because when the Fish guys came over and gave them a sticker, they were fine.







We headed back to our rooms because I had to let Ed in when he arrived and then we had to meet in the lobby to walk over to the Pasta Party. We ate some yummy pasta and heard from John Bingham, who is an awesome speaker! He is the national spokesperson for Team in Training and has a great story. Most runners know him as "The Penguin" as he advocates for those of us who waddle towards the finish line. We also heard from survivors of blood cancers that benefitted from the fundraising that we do during our training. It was amazing! More pics from that at a later date. Now, I am just getting ready to try and go to sleep so I can get up early and head to the lobby to catch the shuttle to the start of the race. I am sure you will be thinking of me when you are sound asleep.....or just getting to bed.....you know who you are!

When I sign on next, I will have 13.1 miles added to my shoes and quite an accomplishment achieved. Good stuff I say!



See you at the FINISH LINE!


GO TEAM!