5k, baseball

i'm alive! which may not be such a surprise to any of you, but i had the 5k to do today.. and i've been under the weather.. and really feeling draggy lately. i did not run today, but i did walk it, briskley, and everything was fine.

the day started with my alarm waking me up at 4:50am... let me just say this upfront - 4:50 am is not morning.. its still dead of night in my book. i woke hannah up and took my shower, by 5:30 i was set to go and went to get in the car only to realize that hannah had never gotten out of bed.

now, let me explain. hannah is an activist. she is on a constant search for a cause to get involved in, it drives her. she is the one that found this asthma benefit put on by the American Lung Assoc. and the one that signed up to volunteer, and then made sure to sign me up to do the 5k. then she told me about it :|. well, her intentions were very good, and i love the fact she wants to help change the world, helping in anyway she can..BUT.. she can go overboard sometimes.

i mean.. this was a very good cause and all, but its not something i would have done on my own, i did this because she was so excited about it. i already volunteer several hours each week for a few different organizations, as well as offer my time and talents to several churches. there is barely a weekend that goes by when i'm not playing in some church in metro detroit.

her volunteer job at this event was to work at registration. because she isn't 18 yet, and doesn't drive herself, i had to agree to drive her, and be at the event so that she could work at it.

we arrived a little late, they wanted all volunteers there at 6am.. but we arrived about 20 minutes late.. BUT we were still the first ones at the zoo. it was pouring rain and probably 40 degrees, miserable... even the zoo workers were not there yet. after about 15 minutes the lady in charge of all the volunteers arrived and told us what she needed hannah to do... of course, i ended up helping hannah with her job, and staying at the registration until every walker/runner had checked in.

the actual even started at 8:30. by 10am we were finished with the registration and i started by walk, hannah decided to do it with me. we walked, 5k isn't far anyway.. only about 3 miles :P but.... my plan was to run it (which was a big deal to me) hannah was sweet for walking it with me, especially knowing i didn't feel very well... we ending up having a lovely morning.

the event raised somewhere around 10,000US so.. hopefully it will help.

after leaving the zoo, i had to go by the lab and pick up my picture projects that i did for my friends. i was pleased with the results :) hopefully my friends will be as well.

then, onto the Detroit Tigers baseball game in downtown. the sun came out just as we arrived at the ball park, it was actually hot in the stands. the sun was beating down on us. bill, the boys, and i, had decent seats, and the game was fun. we lost really bad, but had a good time anyway.

all in all its been a great day. i just have to keep reminding hannah that until she is able take the responsiblity of participating in events and getting herself there.. that she HAS to make sure its ok with me first.

Pistons took the first round of the playoffs today :D now they are heading to the second round.. yay! we don't know if they will play chicago or miami next... if its miami it will be a rematch of last years playoffs (which we lost) if its chicago then we get to play against ben wallace (former pistons starter who left this year) either will be exciting GO PISTONS!

tonight i have to send off proofs from a teaching seminar and music festival that i worked at last weekend.


hope everyones weekend is going well.