Race for the Cure

Peoria's 24th annual Race for the Cure was this morning. Karen, Kris and I joined 18,000 participants (mostly women) this year because:

1) the cause (raising money to combat breast cancer) is good

2) my young aunt died of breast cancer a couple of years ago, and Karen's grandma was a survivor

3) we wanted to see what the hype was all about - this is a pretty big event around here because one of the founders of this national event grew up around here

Anyway, we got there around 7 am to watch part of the opening events. The bathroom lines were pretty bad - I called it the "race for the can". The runs started first; the walkers started at 8:10. We crossed the 3 mile finish line at about 9:20. The event does not have a well defined closure, but some people make it a spa day or go shopping. We ran errands.

Later on, we did a last demo event for the school year for the Lakeview Museum. The attendance was not great. After church tonight Kris got training to be a server, so she will probably do that soon. We ate dinner in East Peoria and stopped by the riverfront. The water is still a bit high.