Well, what can I say.... I wish I could truly get across what this week-end is like b/c I know everyone would want to do it.
Opening ceremonies for this really gets you motived to walk 60km over 2 days. There are speeches from SURVIVORS, from there families. from there children etc... and the music they play just make you cry like a baby. Here is a pic of the beginning....
Us right before the opening ceremonies...yes, our shirts say " SAVE THE TA'S TA'S !!!! " If you don't know me, I'm the last one on the right.
and this is the opening ceremonies and the survivors walk between in the aisle and the CN tower is behind there too.
Every 5km is a "pit stop " where you can go to the bathroom and get food and they feed you like crazy. All the stops are themed, so I took a littel video to show you. This was on the second day and the theme was the 70"s
How fun is that !!!
And here we are at the end of the first day after walking 33km.
And this is us at the ending just before the finish line.
And this is my reason for walking... my girls..
There were 5,531 walkers this year and we raised a record setting $17.3 million dollars 
This was the 2nd year out of 5 that I have done this walk and raising $2000 each year is very very difficult. My group does alot of fundraising to help, but even that sometimes isn't alot. The maniac family has been very very helpful each year to me and I can't thank you enough.
I didn't register to do the walk again next year b/c of the fundraising. I have a hard time asking the same people year after year to help even though this cause is such a worthy one. I'm still up in the air. I said I would take a year off and do it again the following year, but when you are there in the moment, you say to yourself, " how can I not do it." When everytime you turn around, you here of someone you know getting cancer, you say I have to do this. So if I don'
t do this one, I will do others. There is alot of these type events up here, so I have alot of options for sure.
But Princess Margret Hospital in Toronto is one of the leading hospitals for research and with this walk each year, they will find a cure. They donated a special monument outside there hospital this year stating the WEEKEND TO END BREAST CANCER WALK on the plaque. I wanted to share that pic as well with you.
Thank you again Maniac family for all your love and support the last 2 years for me. Honestly, without you guys, my fundrasing, as difficult as it is, would have been a heck of alot harder.
My love to all of you.
Chrisie
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