Saturday, April 22, 2006

The Walk

Well, we did it--and we finished it in just a little over an hour, too. We really knocked out those miles pretty easily (although I did get a little more tired towards the end, due to the countless free bottles of water I was carrying in my backpack; for some reason, I felt the need to pick some up at every station we came to). Good times were had, hands were compulsively washed and laughs were shared. I saw Tyson for the first time since our "break up"--it actually went just fine and we had a good time walking together and getting caught up. We did an unofficial count of the money raised by the entire team (which, mind you, was just 6 of us or so), and we came in just short of $1500. Not too bad!

I'm still too traumatized to talk about the breakfast that FOLLOWED the walk (let's just say that Greg ended up meeting my mother and she was in FINE FORM), but I'll try to post about that part later. I'm still waiting to see what happens at Part 2 of Jen's Hell on Earth tonight (some of us, including Said Mother, are going out bowling tonight, and he said he was going to meet us for a little while for that, too--to "talk to my mom some more." I, frankly, am sure that he was just being polite and is halfway to Canada by now).

13 comments:

Nik said...

You forgot to mention our beloved disco queen (who would also be the mother be spoken about in this post).

Jen said...

When I got home this morning (shut up) I tore UP the rest of my "invisible breakfast" from after the walk.

Jen said...

Well, when Mom, Renee and I first got to Denny's, I ordered a HUGE breakfast. I was starving. After we ordered the food, Greg called and he said he'd come out there to meet us for a while. After we hung up, the food arrived and I was struck by a wave of new-relationship panic: I can't let this guy I just started dating walk in and see me eating the Lumberjack Special! I was surrounded by, like, 30 plates. =-) So I ate some of it really quickly, and then I got a to-go box, boxed the rest of it up, and got rid of my 50 extra plates (I gave some to Renee and Mom and had the waitress take the rest).

And LoB, if you're insinuating what I THINK you were, you're A DIRTY BOY.

As for the conversation at that breakfast, let's just say that my mother felt the need to share WAYYYYY too much info about our family.

Jen said...

Wait, what time did we get done? Was it one hour or two?

Jen said...

PS, there are pics up from the walk at www.thevan.fm . Click on Photo Albums or something like that on the left side, and from there I'm sure you can figure it out. (Once you get into the March of Dimes album, click on that one thumbnail pic you see, and that will take you to all the rest.) There's one of Renee apparently deep throating a bagel or something....

Mom said...

I will survive.

Mom said...

I SAID I was sorry!!

Jen said...

On that first page, there was 16 pics. HOW do you get to see the other ones? I can't figure it out at all, but Kish says that there are more pictures up SOMEWHERE, or something.

Jen said...

OK I saw the rest, but only cuz Kish gave me the direct link, LOL

Mom said...

I was not!

What's the other link?

Mom said...

About 1 1/2 hours.

Mom said...

Renee,

what do you mean "alas"?

I thought you liked him.

Jen said...

Be afraid, Renee. Be very afraid.