Race for the Cure!

This morning, Alaina and I walked in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in downtown St. Louis. It was amazing! Such an awesome experience! I'm SO glad I decided to participate. We got down there super-early (around 7) so we'd be sure to get a parking space close to the race site itself. Then we explored the booths that were set up all along the streets by local businesses and restaurants. We didn't eat any food (shocking, I know!), but did manage to snag some freebies from some of the other booths. It was PACKED full of people!

At 7:25ish, they had the survivors walk, and I cried like a baby watching all those pink shirts walk by. To see that many survivors of breast cancer walking together was very moving. Plus, I'm a great big sap that cries at just about anything anyways. :) After watching that, we had to head over to our designated meeting spot for the Team Boeing picture. And we had WAY more people show up than I thought we had walking. I was super impressed.....can you find me and Alaina in the group photo? Of course you can't! :P But just our group presence there was a donation of thousands of dollars because Boeing donated $100 for every employee that walked! Go Team Boeing!

After pictures, everybody scattered. Some people were doing the run, some were doing the 5K, but we were just doing the 1K. We ended up joining in on the 5K I think, just because nobody seemed to know where we were supposed to really be for the start of the 1K. So we walked along with a huge mass of humanity:

And then ducked out about halfway through when Alaina started saying she was tired and thirsty. I was thirsty too, and it was getting hotter by the second. So we bailed out. Oh well...we weren't the only ones! But we saw lots of strollers and wagons there, so next year we'll know we can take Matthew and Zach with us instead of leaving them with Nanny and PawPaw!

So it was a super-great experience for me to be a part of. Seeing 70,000 people gathered to raise awareness and funds to try and find a cure for breast cancer is a really humbling thing.

Alaina and I wore tags on our backs with my aunt's name, saying we were walking in memory of her. It was very moving to see who all people were walking for: wives, in-laws, mothers, sisters, friends.......so many people have been affected by this disease....we need to find a cure! So thank you to everybody that donated to my walk, I really appreciate it.