Sunday’s Run & Waterfowl Day
I got up around 6am not so bright eyed and bushytailed. Had a shower and got myself ready.. had some coffee, a bit of breakfast.. and was ready to go. Kev dropped me off in the middle of Wellington practically*L* Just infront of the Chateau.. I walked up to Parliament Hill quite briskly to keep warm. The morning was pretty chilly! Crisp and clear though. The sunrise was absolutely beautiful! I checked in, dropped off my offline donation sheet, picked up my run kit. I then went and sat down to dig through it, couldn’t find any pins, so back to the registration booth for those. I finally was able to pin my number on, and my honour bib on the front. I cursed not having 4 pins for each paper, but oh well.. I figured out a way to keep them on without wrinkling and ripping.
I did lots of standing around trying not to become a katsicle, stretching bouncing in placewalking around the Hill. I tried vainly to leech heat from the Eternal Flame-lol- didn’t work so well. I saw our old bank manager at the CIBC tent. I put my mom’s name up on the Wall of Hope.Took some photos, cried some tears. Finally things started to pick up. I was there SO early. I was there at 730, nothing really started till 9am. They had some opening speeches, and statistic readings, and the runners got ready to head out.

