Relay for Life

My dear friend and recent high school grad did relay for life again this year and asked us to help her out. We'd never done it before. Basically, the event runs from 10:00 AM Saturday to 10:00 AM Sunday. You form teams to raise money for the American Cancer Society ahead of time. During the actual event, your team participates in a Relay around a 1/4 mile track. You are supposed to have one member of your team walking around the track for the whole 24 hours. (Guess who did the 3:00 AM shift? Hint, he's usually up anyway!)

Anyways, after a trip to the doctor for me, we got to the event around 4:00 and stayed until 10:30 the next day.

I am going to post the email I sent out explaining the details.

One complaint...this event would have been REALLY awesome if we could have brought dogs...our puppy would have loved it! (Unfortunately the site did not allow pets.)



Email
Thanks to everyone who supported us in our efforts this weekend for Relay for Life. It was a very successful event! Our team raised 1,750 dollars. The event’s goal was to raise $95,000. Well, as of last count, the event total was 175,000…a smashing success, I would say! And the money is still rolling in as internet activity continues and hasn’t been added to the total since Friday.



Also, our team, We Are Family, won a certificate for having walked the most laps of any youth team (Youth teams being a team with a majority of college students or younger…) Quite exemplary considering the we had only five walkers to relay at the start (from about 10:00 AM to about 4:00 PM) and a different team of five walkers (including me!) to relay from 5:00 PM to 8:00 AM the next morning … diligently keeping our relay rings traveling around the track. (Not to mention running the snow cone machine during the day and making various trips to get ice and In N Out burgers, of course!



It was a really neat event, and there were some amazing stories of hope, strength, survival and memory. Of course, the American Cancer Society appreciates your contributions, but know that there were many, many individuals out there whose hearts were full of gratitude for the support and love you were able to give them.



You’ve made a difference.



We’ll keep you posted with any updates…



Thanks:

“We Are Family”