Once again, we are sadly neglecting our blog. The past month has been absolutely crazy! It's been a mess of working, wedding planning, 3-daying, and lazying whenever possible. As I can't even rememeber all that we've done since our last post, I'll highlight what I do remember!

Aug 24 - 27 was the Seattle Breast Cancer 3-Day, which I volunteered for. I have a lot that I could say about it, but will try to keep this short. Thursday was "Crew Day", so just for volunteer crew members, and no the walkers. We spent the day going over all of the things that we'd be responsible for over the weekend and getting to know the people that we'd be working with. I was on the Traffic Control crew. Over the course of the day, I had already come to the conclusion that our crew captain was...not greatest person alive. I won't go into details now....

Friday was the first day of the walk. The crew members had to get there before the walkers started arriving at 6am. We had a wonderfuly early start time of 4am. It was cold, and dark, but once the walkers started to arrive, we kept ourselves busy! We helped out with traffic coming into and leaving the park, along with parking cars who wanted to stay for opening ceremonies, which started at a nice and early 6:30am. Once they started, I got to go to the very start of the walk and cheer on all of the walkers as they started out their 3 long days! After that, I headed to camp and spent the day directing large trucks into and out of the camp, which was a HUGE park, with narrow roads. I worked a nice, long 15 hours that first day.

The rest of the weekend continued on the same. I directed traffic, and had the joy of cheering on the walkers as they returned to camp each day. On Sunday, we headed over to the closing ceremonies pretty early and took care of traffic control there.

What I did wasn't nearly as exciting as the amazing people I met. One of the guys on my crew was from Colorado. He and his wife, along with a few other friends, have been crewing/walking for several years. They go to different cities each year, and make a yearly vacation out of it. Another man walked with his 2nd wife. Together, they walked for his 1st wife who had passed away from breast cancer. Another man, who was dying from lung cancer, somehow managed to walk all 60 miles. Not only did he do that, but he was walking in all of the walks in all of the different cities this year! Another women walked, pushing her mother in a wheel chair the entire way.

Having met all of the amazing people and been a part of such an amazing event was truely a gift. I've already signed up for next year, and have convinced Jim to sign up, too!

Aug 31 - Sept 5 was spent in St. Louis. Jim and I had a fun-filled weekend of wedding planning. The highlights of the weekend included getting our marriage license, happy hour with the Duda's and Yochim's, our wonderful couples shower thrown by my fabulous sisters, and having the opportunity to visit Tom and Sherry before we left. It was a busy weekend, but it was so great to get to see everyone in St. Louis. We miss everyone so much!!