Yesterday, October 17, I participated in AIDS Walk Los Angeles. It took quite a bit of effort to get there - an hour of driving around, getting stuck and rerouted, going to 3 parking structures, which were all full (and driving up and down 2 of those structures to find out that they were full!), waiting in a line of cars squealing their tires on a steep hill in the rain, trying to get up to Sunset Blvd., and finally parking on a street a half a mile away from the start line.
Once we got to the start line, we were 1 1/2 hours late, and they were starting to take down the markers of the course, so we weren't certain where the course was, and we took a wrong turn that made us cut out five miles of the walk! Oops! So we found the mobs of people who were closing in on the finish line, and we walked against traffic on the other side of the street, in the opposite direction, until the route turned, where we would have picked it up if we if we hadn't gotten diverted. Also, our team had gone on ahead, so I didn't get to see Kit (who was also participating) until hours later. That'll teach us not to be late to a walk, ever again!!
Once on the walk, however, it was really fun, great exercise, and not as crowded this year on account of the rain. I didn't mind the rain because I was wearing water resistant clothes, and it was very light rain. Everyone was having a great time cheering each other on, and there were lots of dogs walking too, and people wearing outrageous costumes. Check out some of the sights:
colorful characters
walking the dog
hey, if you're gonna tag a building, this is one of the nicer things you could say...
there were nuns of all colors of the rainbow...
H and I crossing the finish line
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