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A Morning 5K and a Food Truck Festival Night

at the food truck event
Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01635

This morning I left work and went right to a 5K to crush cancer. I was part of the America’s Best Defense team and walked to raise money for the For Kids’ Sake Foundation Inc. I knew that I’d not be running the event, I’d be walking it and that was okay, it was a nice 3 mile walk and I saw a bunch of people that I knew. Many people were walking or running and many more were behind the scenes volunteering or cheering people on.

ADBCrew

there were about 15 people on the ABD Team. We raised about $3500 for the charity. Quite a few of the people on the team were fellow newly ranked Black Belts.

At the first mile

When I started out I thought I was walking t a pretty good clip but so many people were ahead of me, It wasn’t until I chanced a look behind me to see that I was not, in fact, the last person on the course. But man, it feels like that sometimes.

with Marybeth

At the top of Fuller Street I ran into my friend from high School, Marybeth. she and her daughter were working the first water station and I stopped for a little bit to chat with her. Along the route I also ran into some family friends and even more people including a woman who used to train with me in the mornings at ABD. I had been getting photos at every mile marker but I missed mile 3 because Iw as so into our conversation.

I came home and slept and then got up and the family went over to Capron Park for a food truck night. I did not venture too far outside my normal because I ended up getting the same thing I got the last time we went to the food trucks. I got the buffalo chicken fries from Friskies Fries. The kids went with me and also got fries and Allison went and got some specialty tacos. Unfortunately her line moved super slow and we did not get a full family photo while we ate. We got to listen to School of Rock perform at the event and they were very good. Andy has expressed interest in learning an instrument. I’d love to see them go there but they’re more interested in trombone for some reason.

Book, Family Adventures, Photo-A-Day

A Night of Authors

Called Out By Neil Patrick Harris

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00626

Tonight, our local bookstore An Unlikely Story had two events that we attended virtually. The first was a conversation between Jeff Kinney the author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and owner of An Unlikely Story and Neil Patrick Harris. Neil was talking about his new book The Magic Misfits: The Fourth Suit. To be honest, I did not know that he was an author. I’d never heard of the series before and now that I know about it I want to get the series for the kids so that they can read the rest of the books. We will be getting a copy of the 4th book that was recently released.

The virtual event was a lot of fun. Neil was excellent and the banter back and forth with Jeff was fun. Then Neil opened it up for questions and we got to see all the people on Zoom. Neil asked that we turn on our cameras and there we were smack dab between Jeff and Neil on the screen. We were in Allison’s profile so her name was on the screen but my face was what you saw when I turned on the camera. Neil sees this and says, “Allison what a beard you have” We start laughing and then he says that he wants to talk with some people. He unmuted us and talked to us. He asked everyone’s names and then asked if we had a question for him. He asked me directly to ask a question and I totally choked. So he moved on to Eva and she asked a really good question and Neil said, “Now that’s how you ask a question.” I was dying.

The second event was a conversation between Jeff and Max Brallier, author of The Last Kids on Earth regarding the latest book in the series. I reviewed that on video recently. It is called The Last Kids on Earth and the Skeleton Road. Max had an advanced copy sent to me. Both events were a lot of fun.