March of Dimes

On Saturday we participated in the Dallas March of Dimes March for Babies walk. The walk was a five mile loop by White Rock Lake. My company was one of the sponsors for the walk so I signed up to participate. We thought it would be fun and a good warm up for our Europe trip next week since we will be doing a lot of walking while we are there.

We showed up at the park and ride facility to be bussed into the walk and it was a bit of a fiasco. There were tons of people all waiting for the shuttle buses. When we finally arrived at the walk there were thousands of people. I wanted to wait and go walking with the people from my company but we were standing at the starting line and as I looked back I couldn’t see the end of the line. So we went ahead and knew we would have fun on our own. It was inspiring to us how many people were willing to give up a Saturday morning to raise awareness and money for research to help premature babies.

As we started walking we quickly noticed that there were too many people for the roads and it was crazy crowded. Addie just wanted to get out and walk around, but would have been trampled, so she was fussy. There were a few times when we wanted to just turn around and head back home but we stayed with it. We took breaks, let Addie run around, gave her snacks, and walked really fast so we could speed up the process. At the end we felt good for staying to the task and getting it all done. Here are some photos from our day.

Ready to Walk

Starting to Meltdown

Addie and Daddy

Finally out of the stroller

Look how big my shirt is