CHOC Walk

This morning, was the fundraising walk for the Children's Hospital of Orange County (you may recall I mentioned it previously). Between the two of us, we raised $400 for the cause and got out of bed at an ungodly hour today to do the walk.

The walk was 5km long (3.1 miles) and the course was laid out through both the Disneyland park and also the California Adventure park. I am not sure how many people participated but it must have been in the vicinity of 10,000.

One aspect of the day that Jen and I had not expected was that there were a lot of groups walking together in support of a specific sick child who is being treated by the hospital and in some cases the groups were walking in memory of a child who had been treated at the hospital but had lost their battle. You don't have to see too many t-shirts that say things like "Walking in loving memory of ..." and have dates like "2001 to 2006" on them before it gets you a little choked up, especially as we walked along with our exceptionally healthy baby.

Anyway, Jen got a little snap happy with the camera while we were there and I took a couple of photos too when I could wrestle the camera away from here. We took so many that we put them in an album instead of trying to put them here in the blog. So here you go:

CHOC Walk 2008