A Worthy Cause

My friend Elizabeth has been gearing up for the Breast Cancer 3 day walk. A major component of doing the walk is to raise money for cancer research. She has been training all summer long, and while she has been working on fundraising, she is still falling short in her goal for the walk.

I'm really proud of Elizabeth, because she has been working quite hard to train for this event. An added benefit to all of this is that she's able to shed some of the baby weight she gained having some of the most beautiful girls in the world :)

I'm including a section from her own email below, but if any of you feel inspired to donate to her walk (which is tax deductible and earns extra karma points, even if it's just a little donation), please visit the following website: http://www.the3day.org/twincities07/ezconklin

An excerpt from Elizabeth's email:
"My due date for fundraising is quickly approaching, July 25th to be exact. I'm still $600 short…. You can see where this is going, right? :) Please support me as I take an amazing journey in the fight against breast cancer! The Breast Cancer 3-Day is a 60-mile walk over the course of three days. Net proceeds benefit the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and the National Philanthropic Trust, funding important breast cancer research, education, screening, and treatment.

I'm also happy to report that the training is going very well. I walk to/from work on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays - that's 7 miles a day. And I do strength training and yoga Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. All of this has lead to my favorite part - a 27 pound weight loss and just over 3 inches off my waist.

So, even if you don't care to support the Breast Cancer 3 Day event, won't you consider donating on behalf of my personal health?"

Way to go Elizabeth!!!

New York, New York

Well, I finally feel recovered enough to put some updates on here. I'm sorry, blogging community, to have failed to be up to the minute with this stuff... but I was busy :) Of course, that's not much of an excuse, because my friend Erin managed to blog while we were in Valdez. All I can say, is you're a much better person than I :)

However, I have compiled some photos for your viewing pleasure (I hope!), and so I wanted to place some of them here on my blog. I'm horrible about actually taking pictures, so I'm hoping at some point to acquire more from friends. But, as you can see from these photos, I had a blast.

Here's a photo of me and my friend Berglind! She was able to meet up with us for the first day we were there - it was so great seeing you Berglind!


She was also with a small group of us that went to walk by the UN, followed by a search for breakfast. We ended up eating at a diner that was VERY good. I think it was my favorite breakfast food the entire time, although that is colored by the fact that I was on very little sleep and was hungry :)


Our first day consisted of the walk by the UN, breakfast, and then checking out of the replacement hotel (long story short, when we arrived at our hotel, there was a mix-up and they didn't have all of our rooms. In the end, after much debating between the online booking company and the hotel, the online booking company took fault, and the hotel found us another, pretty swanky, hotel for the evening - but this caused us to have to move our stuff the following day), checking into our original hotel, walking around Times Square, and then waiting in line for tickets to a Broadway show:


We ended up with tickets for all 11 of us at our first choice, which was the Terrance McNally play "Deuce", starring Marian Seldes and Angela Lansbury:


Here's a photo of our crew waiting outside the theater doors where we performed. This was right before our tech rehearsal for the first show:

Most of the photos that I've put up here I've gotten from other friends (actually, mostly from Leif!), but I have a set of my own photos up on facebook in a New York Album. Please take a peek! You don't need to have a facebook account to look at them.

I'll slowly but surely catch up with events! I still want to post about my Valdez theater conference experience, so I'll try and make a point to do that soon. Meanwhile, I was originally supposed to have left Alaska about two hours ago, but I decided to extend my trip when my cousin Ian announced his engagement! The wedding is only 10 days from now, so I could not pass up on being here! So I'll be heading back to the Twin Cities on July 25th.

Ciao for now!