A great day for a walk...

Well, we finished another year of the Baltimore Running Festival.   Ben's fiance' set us up to walk for a charity again this year in honor of Katie.  I have to say, this lady is so supportive of Ben and all he has been through and I can't thank her enough for being in our lives.  She set it up so that we made money for Cystic  Fibrosis, had the t-shirts made, and hauled us all out of bed at an ungodly hour to walk in the 5K.  Our little team raised over $900.00  and CF as a whole made over $31,000.00 at the Run Fest.  It wasn't as easy for me this year (you can probably tell by the look on my face as we crossed the finish line...haha, but it is so worth it.  I hope they find a cure for this horrible disease.  This year it happened to fall on the anniversary of Katie's passing.  How fitting, huh?  On the way to the start line, we passed a volunteer who stopped us and asked for a picture, she loved our shirts.  Then she texted the picture to us.  Wasn't that kind of her?  It's hard to tell from this picture but the green and pink lettering are glittery.  Katie would have loved these shirts!

Here are Ben, his fiance' and future mother-in-law crossing the finish line (several minutes before us)

Here are Mike and I crossing the finish line.  We are looking at the MC who was announcing our names...which we had no idea how the knew who we were.  

I love the medals they give when you cross the line....this one has the warehouse and scoreboard of Camden Yards (and anyone who has read my blog in the past know that this is where our beloved Orioles baseball team play.)

We went to DC the next day to catch Darci Lynn who was having a show at the DAR theater.  It was a fabulous show, this young lady is so talented.  She even sang Italian opera with Petunia at the end of the show!  WOW!!

It was a great birthday weekend, and one I won't soon forget!!