To date, I've raised $1,220 for the Relay for Life to benefit the American Cancer Society!!!
Right now, I am the #2 fundraiser and my team is the #5 fundraiser overall for the event!
The festivities start at 4 tonight so I'm going to take a half day to go home and pack up our tent/canopy/sleeping bag and assorted other stuffs for the event.
I'm really looking forward to it tonight. There's nothing quite like camping out in the middle of a school campus to bring awareness of a deadly disease which has touched so many people so personally.
There is going to be so much going on tonight! Here's the itinerary!
- 4pm: - Registration open (all night at registration tent)- Camp site set up begins- Relay Store open until midnight (registration tent)
- 5pm- DJ's Doggin IT selling popcorn, pretzels, nachos and cheese, cotton candy, soda, iced tea and lemonade until midnight. Located trackside by the '87 Gym.- Dance, Dance revolution until 2am
- 6pm- Opening Celebration Ceremony (stage) with guest speakers Margie Wood (survivor) and Dr Plopper and presentation of colors by Navy ROTC color guard
- 6:30pm - Survivor lap- Rememberance Wall - Mission tent until 8pm- Mission tent activities until 1am
- 7pm:- Survivor Reception- Team Mascot Lap - Gather your team, your mascot and your banner and show your team spirit!- Saratoga Photo Booth - Registered participants can snap this super cool souvenir for just $1! Located on the outside of the track next to DJ's Doggin IT on the '87 Gym end of the field until 10pm- $5 haircuts until 10pm (Free if you donate your ponytail of 8 inches or longer to Pantene Beautiful Lengths). Registration tent.- Dinner. Free hamburgers, hot dogs and veggie burgers for registered participants (wristband required)
- 7:30pm- Frankie Lassard performance(stage)- Astrophysical Society stargazing until 10pm- Slip, Slop, Slap race on the '86 field (skin cancer awareness activity)- Miss Relay Contest - center of the field
- 8pm- Red Carpet Lap - Strut your stuff on the red carpet which will run across the track
8:30pm- Luminaria Remember ceremony (gather by the bags around the track and listen for instructions as part of the ceremony to help us light the bags) - 9pm- Reason 837 performance (stage)
- 9:30pm- Movie trivia- Frozen t-shirt contest- Guitar Hero until 11:30pm
- 10pm- Harbour Grace performance (stage)
- 10:30pm- 3 legged lap - Musical chairs on the '86 Field. Bring your own chair!
- 11pm- Partial credit performs (stage)
- 11:30pm- Fight Back ceremony (stage)
- 12am- Dylan Mandlsohn, comedian (stage)- Petition Lap- Strive For 25 drawing. Winners announced following Dylan's performance- Relay store closes (registration)
- 1am- Karaoke until 2am- Cancer awareness presentation (side of Ricketts)- Rock paper scissors tournament
- 1:30am- Ice Cream social for qualified top fundraising participants at the food tent (wristband required)
- 2:30 am - Movies on the big screen (side of Ricketts)
- 3am- Starring contest- Relay Quest
- 4:30am- Breakfast provided by Panera (free for all registered participants) - food tent
- 5:30am- Closing ceremony (stage)
- 6am- Last lap- Clean Up
Boy oh boy, I'm excited!
I wonder if I'll get ANY sleep tonight... with the music blaring all night and the whole field lit up with stadium lights, I kinda doubt it... oh well! That's what the event is all about, right?
Wish us luck!!!!!!!!
