  Well, today I figured out how to get Kel to Colorado without too much worry about the dog sitting and price of gasoline, etc.
She's flying out. I somehow found a really inexpensive flight - roundtrip and only a week away. Today we headed to the DMV and she got her permit. While there they said I could renew my license since it was within a year of expiration for me. I've had mine forever and it was an awful picture. I was glad to be rid of it. The new one doesn't seem a whole lot better.
It's kind of stern looking in a smiley way... go figure. And I finally got to see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban! It was definitely different than the other two. And I liked the first two better. I admit it. I miss the old Dumbledore. But I like me some Snapes. There isn't enough of him in any of them. :) Hutch is looking for more Relay photos. I have one I'd like to post. But I can't upon punishment of pain and suffering.
And I didn't take very many. So while we wait until my Dad e-mails me some, we'll have to settle for the other few that I did take. urlLink This is the survivors from across the field all spread out around the track taking their lap...&nbsp; urlLink urlLink Here come the survivors rounding the final curve on their kick-off lap of the Relay! This year we had the largest group of survivors with us we've ever had! It was beautiful... &nbsp; urlLink We had visitors - Jerry and his daughter and grandkids stopped by. His wife Delores is on my list of Honorees... They came for the luminaria ceremony. I graduated with his daughter and it was really nice to see her and her kids.
Another really good friend of mine, Carolyn, came by with her husband and daughter. They were there from opening ceremony through the luminaria ceremony. John made a luminaria for his dad; they participated in the silent auction and took home a fishing pole; they stuffed some money in our dude's purse and visited with some friends; they had some dinner at the concession stand; they visited with us and offered to walk with us next year... all in all, I think they had a good time.
Our teammate Lauren's mom, Dawn, who was treated for breast cancer and only recently completed her treatments in fact, came by and walked in the survivor's lap. She stuck around for a couple of hours. Hutch's sister came by after the luminaria ceremony. I had just taken off to let the dog out and feed him his very late dinner and to get myself some warmer clothes for the night time hours.
I hurried as quickly as I could because I hate to miss any of the Relay, but I still managed to miss her visit. I got back to the school and headed to the campsite and said to Keith, "You know what? Donna didn't come tonight. " And everybody on the team who happened to be sitting around the campfire just then said in chorus, "You just missed her! " I could have cried. I was torked that I'd had to leave. Next year, I'm getting a puppy sitter.
I had to leave for part of it last year because of him, too. Or else I'm going to put him in his crate and take him to my folks' house so that he's a lot closer than that drive all the way to my house... *grumble grumble* We had a lot of fun in the morning watching the Road to Recovery car races that the little kids take part in. They decorate cardboard boxes like cars and get inside them and run around the track in them. And they are just little kids who can barely make it around the track.
We stood there screaming and whistling and clapping for them. We were about the only few people doing that. Nobody else really noticed them. We had to yell at some walkers to get out of their way because they were coming up to them and the walkers were blocking the whole track. Some of the kids were so little that when they heard us they thought they were finished. We had to yell to keep going so they'd know they had a ways to go still.
One poor little boy (Big Dan) kept tripping over his untied shoe laces and his mom just kept picking him up and telling him to keep going. The weather was so great. The sunset was incredible, but the sunrise, after being up all night... WOW. Well, I guess that's enough for this post. My daughter is late getting home. I'm going to sign off and get out of the office and get my teeth brushed.
Think I'll read for a bit. It sure is going to be a quiet month when she is gone... 
