Day 18 May 24, 2011 Day off – Halifax
24 May
I woke up at 9am to Mike creepily standing over my bed holding out his phone playing music from the Contender.
We were one the road to Halifax by 11am after having done our own version of Cribs for the Mobile Command Centre. I drove the RV for the first time other than my little spin in the parking lot. It wasn’t as fun as I thought it would be, essentially like driving a bus, and it took some time to get used to.
The drive to Halifax was about 2 hours, by which point I was well used to driving on the highway, but found it much more entertaining once I entered the city and had to negotiate tight turns in traffic.
We drove around looking for a place to park, eventually finding a perfect spot in the middle of Halifax Commons within walking distance of everything we needed. We headed out to meet Michael Kydd, our contact at Prostate Cancer Canada for the Atlantic Region. We had a great chat about our vision of the run, how he could help, and he was kind enough to set us up with a radio interview for tomorrow night, let us use his printers and gave us prostate cancer neckties, pins and promotional material. We also met George, one of their volunteers and a prostate cancer survivor who was kind enough to share his story.
We had also received a package from Dave, our campaign manager back in Vancouver. It was filled with our Steps To Action brochures, buttons with our logo, and a lot of anti blister and anti chaffing supplies much to my delight. Also included were two giant foam Vancouver Canucks hands that, while being great for watching the game, were constructed exactly like our logo. We can now give prostate cancer an even bigger finger!
Later that evening, with my Canucks Jersey, our foam hands, and Step Into Action buttons we met Carla, our waitress at Your Father’s Moustache. We talked to her about the run and Step Into Action and we now had stuff we could give out. We gave her a button and the Steps to Action and she said we made her night!
You know what made my night? ADVANCING TO THE STANLEY CUP FINALS!!!!!!!!!! Our foam hands were put to good use at Bubba Ray’s Sports Bar where along with Mike’s friend Jenny we had a great night cheering on the Canucks!
It’s a good thing I don’t have to run tomorrow because 3am is not an ideal time to be going to sleep!
