4/19/08 JDF Walk

Saturday JDRF and Parkway Walk Total = 42.6 miles
Year-to-Date Total = 849.9 miles

Miles to go to hit "2008 miles in 2008" - 1158.1 miles

From: Marie

It was a very small group this morning at the Brandon Park Way. Marie, Julie and Dale. Bonnie had to leave the meeting early to go have her blood work done so she couldn't take our pictures this morning. It's a shame she couldn't be there because Dale and I walked to the fountain and on the way we saw something really weird looking on the way there. In the pond around where we usually see the little bunny, in the water was what at first we thought was a couple of turtles, but as we walked down to the bank and got closer we could see it was not turtles. We stood there for a few minutes trying to figure it out they looked like little snouts, or paws sticking up out of the water, it was too murky for us to see clearly. Then Dale thought maybe it was a couple of baby Nutria's. We are still not sure, because as we were watching they went down to far in to the water. There were about 4 or 5 little things that kept coming up. I wish Bonnie would have been there with her camera. There were not a lot of people there this morning, maybe we saw 5 people the whole time. I hope you all had a good time and a good walk, can't wait for the pictures and to hear all about it.

From: Mary

We had a really nice time at the JDRF walk, today in downtown Tampa. Those walking were -
Jennifer and Christine both of which go to the 9:00 AM Saturday WW meeting, Tina, Deborah and Pam who all work at Time, Inc, Pam's two sons Foster and Johnathan, Mary M., Tony, Gary, Bob, Bonnie, F. and Val. That made 13 of us for a Total of 40.3 miles walked. We walked for the St. Pete Times Forum down Bayshore and back for a 5K - 3.1. miles. There were lots of participators, but no one at JDRF announced the final count of walkers or how much money that raised. The food was good before and after the walk and plenty of it. There were 2 water stations along the walk route. There were lots of companies handing out promotional trinkets. They had string strap backpacks, so we all filled up on the free stuff. We got comments about our T-Shirts for some of the other walkers. They thought it the name and the T-Shirts were neat.

We have less than 1200 miles to go!! WOW! We are right on track to make our goal by the end of the year!!!