We didn't have to start as early this morning to get to our cheer spot. We were assigned a spot each day, but each day we would go inspect that spot, deem it unacceptable, and find one that we liked. Wonder why the cheer group supervisor never found us
Anyhow, today we were going to hand out pink mardi gras beads. After not liking our assigned spot, we found a better one and parked the car in front of a waiting-to-be-sold subdivision. While we waited for the walkers to arrive, we chatted with a snowbird dude who was waiting for his friends to walk past (dude forgot to bring his shirts down for the winter - we think it's because his mom packed his clothes, or so he said. By the way, dude is in his 60s). After chatting with Dude and getting a lot of his personal information, the walkers started arriving. They were beginning to remember us, and were so happy to see us (or happy that the next pit stop was just down the street). Soon we had given away all our beads and cheered the last walker, so we headed out for lunch. Today we were determined to really eat lunch and not subsist on ice cream.
We drove around looking for fast food (since we still had another cheer spot to find), passing walkers on their route. We settled for McDonald's and then set out to find our next spot - a deserted lot that we pulled the car on and set up shop. Our afternoon agenda was to pass out shots of Coke and Diet Coke to those walkers who wanted some - and there were plenty (for all you cola addicts out there, you understand what it's like to not have your drink of choice). You would have thought we were handing out bars of gold. The walkers would see one of us holding up the bottles, their mouths would drop, and they would beeline for our table. It was so great!!
Soon the last walker headed past our table toward home, and it was our turn to head home. We stopped by Olive Garden for some much needed food, followed by a shower and bed (well, I had to stay up to watch Alabama beat Mississippi State in football - GO DAWGS!). Tomorrow morning was going to come soon enough!!
As promised, here are some pictures!!
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| The 3-Amigomobile |
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| Passing out some candy to another walker ... |
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| Jeanne's and my sign - Emily had her own survivor sign to which many of the walkers would give her a hug or a high-five and say to her, "That's why I walk." |
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| The Three Amigos. And Pini, our pinata. |
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| Waiting for some cola drinkers. | | | | |
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| Hola!! Cola?? |
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The Good Stuff From Today: 3-Day walkers; snowbird dude; finding our way along the route; Emily finding our drink stop location; two crew ladies stopping to get a picture with us; all the pictures that walkers wanted with us; red neck 3-day truck group
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