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May 29, 2013

Another Team RWB Post

I've posted about Team RWB before so I won't bore you with another plug. Just wanted to share a few pictures from our recent activities! We even made the post paper!

Ready for Run as One, an event to commemorate the partnership between Team RWB and Team Rubicon and to honor Marine veteran Clay Hunt, an original Team Rubicon member, who lost his battle with PTSD and depression.
This event took place in over 40 locations nationwide

Fort Rucker Team_RWB

Oh and Mike and I are registered for the Army Ten Miler in October! Anyone else doing it?!

N'awlins.

Mike and I celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary yesterday--CRAZY! Nine years! One of the great things about getting married over a holiday weekend is that he's always guaranteed at least a three day weekend. One of our New Year's resolutions was to try to stop complaining about how much we dislike Alabama and try to take advantage of what the south has to offer us. Sooo...we hopped in our car and drove about five ours south west to New Orleans!

Several family members met us there as well, which made the weekend extra fun! I was shocked at how much disrepair there still was after almost 8 years. Very sad. I don't remember watching the news much in 2005 so I read up a lot about Katrina while we were there and my heart was just breaking. I'm so glad so much of the city has been able to recover.

Sidenote: This is NOT a stroller or handicap friendly city. My sister-in-law's mother was in a wheelchair and could not use the side walks the majority of the time due to broken concrete or tree roots. We had the same issue with the stroller but luckily we had taken our BOB with us so it handled the obstacles a lot better than a regular stroller would have. Just keep this in mind while traveling with a stroller or wheelchair.

We stayed downtown and spent the majority of the time in the French Quarter and area. I have never been in a city so alive with music--I LOVED it. We did not get beignets from Café Du Monde (or anywhere else for that matter) and we didn't get to see Marie Laveau's grave--we walked all the way to the cemetery only for it to be closed.

It was HOT (and smelly!) but we had a good time. I used all of my carriers and Hazel did great in the jogging stroller. We ate a TON of really good food and really enjoyed ourselves. I don't think we'd go back, except maybe to see the city decorated for Christmas. The pictures pretty much tell the story....