Yesterday was the most amazing day ever!
As many of you know, yesterday I competed in a 5k race to raise money for Children's Hospital Boston Pacemaker/ICD Camp program. I am happy to tell you that the race raised 18,000 dollars (1500 or so from my family and friends) with more still being donated! It was truly a successful day in every way imaginable.
Team Skyler! was recognized by so many people. As I was running I had people I didn't know yelling out "Go Team Skyler!" Even the Hull Television reporters said, "Team Skyler Rocks!" on their Facebook page. (I'll post a link once they get all the footage up on the site.) So what made Team Skyler! so magical? Well, picture a group of about 20 people wearing Team Skyler shirts, cowboy hats, banners, and tutu's. Then picture a wagon decorated with hearts, butterflies, ducks, ribbons and beads. Now picture a radio blaring the song "we got the beat". And then imagine Sky being pulled in that wagon by my sister and tossing out Mardi Gras beads and bubbles to all the onlookers. Yup, we stood out and it was amazing.
Skyler was the bell of the ball and she enjoyed every second of the day. She met the people that run the camp and has decided that she does want to sleep over now. Why? Because crazy things happen at that camp, they actually hand out rubber duckies and she doesn't want to miss out on that! She met a funny clown who have her a hula necklace, sky then gave him a beaded necklace... it was cute. I embarrassed her (and probably myself) when I decided to get up and dance with the belly dancer. We all turned a little red with that one! She even won 2 raffle prizes! The kid couldn't have had a better day!
So the dreaded 5K race that I trained for.... I wasn't sure how I was going to do with that since I only has a few weeks of training. My goal was to finish it, not vomit, and not come in last. I am happy to report that I succeeded. Each time I felt like stopping and walking I just simply looked down at my shirt where I had written the names of all the heart kids and angels I know. They kept me going! I came in 132 out of 257. I was 28 out of 62 in my age division and my time was 31.59 min. Ok, so it wasn't marathon time, but I was super pleased! (mostly because I didn't vomit, but I mentioned that already)
Thank you all who contributed to making this day so special! We appreciate everything you have done and continue to do for us!
I am posting a link to my facebook photo album. Hopefully you can see the pictures.
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