Mad Hatter's Tea Party!

First let me just say, "WOW"!!! Last night Jen and I hosted our Mad Hatter's Tea Party. It was a FANTASTIC evening and I think I can safely say we all had a great time. It wasn't all just fun and games though, we managed to raise $408 for our ride. I must do my thank-yous. Thank you Mona and Amir for baking an amazing cake (our centre piece!), thank you Tina for bringing wine and a veggie platter (to delay the sugar coma at least a little), thank you Rox for bringing A TON of alcohol, thank you Georghia and Chris for helping with the decorations, baking pizzas, making potato wedges and bringing extra chairs! Thank you Jen for also helping to decorate and for having such an amazing costume! Thank you Mum for providing the sparkling wine, thank you Mrs. Wright for the amazing tea cups for which we couldn't have had the party without! Thank you Amy for the kick ass costume and decorations that really pulled the party together! And lastly, thank you to each and every person that came out last night and generously donated to our cause!

Jen has kindly posted all of our pictures from last night here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/117930013981631912894/MadHatterFundraisingTeaParty?feat=directlink

My training has taken a back seat lately due to all of the baking and planning we have been doing! I will post more updates when I get back to training!

Tuesday we have another McGill bake sale where hopefully we can meet our fund raising goal!! Thanks to this party I am now at 95% of my goal and have less than $200 to go until I can officially do the ride to conquer cancer!

Thank you!!

Biking, Fundraising and Thank-you's!

Oh no! I am falling behind in my blogging! Bad habit to get into ... Ok, let's fix that!

Yesterday:

Let me start off by saying yesterday was cold AND windy! However, I was very determined to get out (finally!) on my bike, so I did! It was fantastic. Although the head wind had me down to 19 km/hr at some points, I preserved and managed to fight the elements for a good hour and a half. Stats for the bike:

Time: 1:24.42

Avg. HR: 144 bpm

Distance: 33.47 km

Avg. Speed: 23.7km/hr

My toes were slightly numb at the conclusion of my ride, but it was all worth it! Looking forward to the next one!!!

Today:

THANK YOU to MONA AFLAKI, SHANNON WRIGHT and BOB & JEANETTE WRIGHT!!! I'm up to $1,110!!!! AWESOME!

Every Friday in our lab we have journal club meetings in the morning. I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to bake muffins and see what kind of response I would get (muffin = small donation, $0.50). To my ABSOLUTE delight, with 23 muffins (I sampled one ...) I made $20!!! Thank you SOOOO MUCH to everyone in the lab for your support, I will make this a weekly treat! How does everyone feel about blueberry for next week?!

I would also like to take a moment to plug our Mad Hatter's Tea Party! Let me just say I'm sooo EXCITED about this party!! It is going to be a fantastic time and the more people we have there, the better!! So please, come one, come all and bring everyone you know!! April 17th is fast approaching!!!!!!

Awesome!

We had a pretty solid fundraising day today!!! I would like to deeply thank Charmody Leppington, Amy Cairns (Dawson) and Sandra Stewart (Dawson) for all of their awesome contributions!! I can't believe I'm already at 40% of my goal! AWESOME!

We have some exciting fundraising events coming up that I would like to share with everyone! The first are two bake sales occurring at McGill University on April 14 and 20th. We will be selling all kinds of baked goods in the McIntyre building from 11:30 - 1 pm.

The second and the one I am VERY MUCH looking forward to is our Mad Hatter's Tea Party! I would like to extend a huge thank you to Georghia Michael for coming up with the great idea and for helping put the idea into reality. You can see the awesome invitations she made for the party!

Now for the physical part!

Today felt like winter was coming back so I decided it was a good time to hit the pool! I managed to do 3.6 km in about 60-70 mins. I always feel so relaxed and calm after the swim and am looking forward to my bed!