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Today was the day of the big walk. With a lot of help from many people, I was able to reach my fund raising goal of $250.00. Thanks to all those who pledged.

Didn't get much sleep last night as I ended up taking care of my niece and nephew a little longer than expected, while my sister and parents partied it up at a local dance in Oshawa where my sister's family now lives. My parents finally got back to my sisters place at about 12:45 AM, two hours later than we had planned. We left almost immediately and arrived back home about a half hour later. I didn't get to sleep til about 3:00 AM, luckily, my brother had agreed to drive me to the event in the morning.

The place was easy to find as it was right in front of the CNE gates. My brother dropped me off, I gave him some money for gas, and off I went to the registration tent. Despite what the weather forecast had predicted, the weather was great. It was sunny, and not cold at all. Guest speakers at the even were Doug Gilmore and some quarterback from the Argos. Having raised $250, I was eligable for a t-shirt and two Famous Players movie passes. I stood in line to collect my earned prizes.

I still hadn't met up with my group and was beginning to worry. Finally, just five minutes before the scheduled start time for the walk, Nina called me to let me know they were just parking. Once we were all together, we started our 10 kilometer walk with no idea of lied ahead. At about 2.5 kilometers most of us were ready to turn back. We couldn't bare the thought of walking that same distance, three more times. But we walked on. About two hours later we were finally back at the finish line where we had started. We were tired, our bodies ached, and we were hungry. The hot dogs and bananas that were handed out, was just what we needed. We commended each other on a job well done, said our goodbyes and went on our way.

I wasn't in any rush to go home, nor did I want to. I decided to call Mia to see what she was up to and we made plans to meet up. I went to her house for a bit and played around with her G5 Mac while she looked for socks. I decided I'd use my movie passes so we walked over to Paramount to see what was playing. It was still early for any shows so we decided to go eat at some Indian restaurant called Everest. After that we grabbed some ice cream at Ben & Jerry's, browsed around Chapter's for a while, and finally went to watch The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I fell asleep a few times during the movie but I'm not sure if it was becuase I was so exhausted, or becuase the movie just didn't interest me that much. I think it might have been a bit of both. I went back to Mia's to pick some stuff up, and went home. All in all, it was a good day.