The Long Walk

Well, we survived the MS Walk. We started off at the Bison sports arena (home of the North Dakota State University basketball team) where we got some swag (t-shirts) and registered. There was also a warm up period that involved jazzercizing to a disco remix of Boston's "More Than A Feeling".

This was led by a woman with a toddler clinging to her back. Not in a harness. Just hanging there like a baby orangutan. The woman would jazzercize to the left while using her right hand to hold on to the toddler. Then she'd jazzercise to the right while using her left hand to keep her two-year-old from flying off herback to be trampled by the crowd. I am not making this up. Needless to say, we observed this rather than actively participating. Unfortunately, I forgot I had a camera until it was over.

We finished the three mile walk in about two hours. As you can probably tell, we weren't in a hurry. Afterwards we got some chow and headed home for a nap. Thanks to everyone who pledged money to our team, the Walk of Love Bus.

Just prior to starting the walk. Not pictured: jazzercise!


Donna takes advantage of the free orangutan food.


Macy and Donna couldn't resist the National Guard
recruiting station. They head to Afghanistan
next month.

Macy is greeted at the finish line by Hawkeye, mascot

for the Fargo-Moorhead Redhawks, an Independent

League baseball team. In the background is Hawkeye's son,

the result of an unholy coupling with a human female.