This morning was the annual Hugh Cummings Memorial Walk at the college. We arose bright and early at 4:50 a.m. to get ready and be at the college before walkers started arriving at 6 a.m. We had to pick up Amy (one of our trustees and a huge fan of Arianna) in Beach Bay at 5:30 so we were out the door by 5:15. Arianna was nice enough to wake up only briefly when we moved her to the car seat and to sleep until we got to the college. Once we got there though she was wide awake and wanted to see all the people. We made it to the college by 5:45 and several people were already there waiting to sign up so Arianna was quite a popular attraction as those who hadn't met her yet wanted to and those who had, wanted to see her again.
The walk goes from the college down Hirst road to Pedro Castle and back. We had bought 75 t-shirts but sold out of almost all of them last week and the remaining few went quickly this morning. Between 35 and 40 people actually did the walk and Katie and I brought up the rear with Arianna in the stroller. We kept a reasonable pace and finished Arianna's first 5k walk/run in a little over an hour. There was breakfast waiting at the end including patties, fruit and coffee. I haven't been on a long walk since my back issues several weeks back so I am going to be paying the price later today but Katie came through in good shape and Arianna just loved it though she was exhausted by the end.
