11 miles from Enumclaw and 11 miles closer to Seattle. Is that a blister forming?

Sharon, Nancy, Danna and Nina. Bright and early we are at the beginning of the walk and excited to get walking. Enumclaw to Seattle. Still no blisters!

Danna, Nancy and Nina at Day 0 in Enumclaw - turned in our donations, got our tent assignments and excited to start the walk the next day. Blister free!

Nina, Nancy, Sharon and Danna all smiles on Day 1.

Brian was at every cheer station along the way - this was just the first of many places where Brian could drive to just to see us walk by. Seeing his face in the crowds at the cheer stations was a joy for all of us.

All along the way people held up signs - thanking us for walking, encouraging us to keep going, reminding us that others have lost their loved ones to Breast Cancer - some of them were silly, some of them were serious but all the signs provided us encouragement to keep on walking.

I quickly became the blister expert in our group - I spent a few hours on night 1 at the first aid station having my blisters lanced and learning how to bandage blisters. Notice the scaffold-type structure bandage "around" the blister but not "on" the blister. Blister count: Right foot - big blister on inside of heel, blister on big toe, small blister on outside of heel. Left foot - small blister on inside of heel.

Nancy and I arrive at camp day 1 to find our tent not set up. Apparently the boyscouts who had set up all the other tents ran out of tent poles when it came to setting up our tent so they just left it on the ground. Nancy and I went a little delirious after walking 20 miles and finding our tent down. As was usual on the walk, the crew was very helpful and came right over to help us set up the tent.

Cheer station on Day 2 was in Renton. Brian was here to cheer us on again.

Shoes on, dew rags tied and ready to go for 20 more miles this day.

I shared my blister knowledge so everyone's feet could be "blister bandaged".

Halfway through day 2 we are at the Cheer station. Blister count: Right foot - Huge big blister on inside of heel, blister on big toe, a few small blisters on outside of heel. Left foot - a few small blisters on inside of heel, blister forming on outside heel.

We spent the night at of day 2 in Bellevue at Newport Hills High School. After checking in at the end our walk on day 2, we snuck away to Nina's house, had nice showers and ate Kentucky Fried Chicken for dinner. Yeah - no taking showers in those big shower trucks and no spaghetti for the masses meals. Blister count: Right foot - lost count (note that blisters wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to put on shoes). Left foot - the few blisters on inside of heel have grown to one big blister, few small blisters on outside heal

Mile 59 is the last cheer station - we are thrilled that we have made it this far. The last day included a walk across I-90 bridge which provided great views of Lake Washington and some time to reflect on what we had accomplished and why we were walking.

Note smile on my face as Brian is there to greet us at our last cheer station. Blister count: Right foot - lost count at beginning of day but 19 more miles reminded me that I still had blisters. Left foot - blisters on inside and outside of heel and arches, small blister formin on little toe.

Nothing tasted so good - We decide to take a break for frapuccino's before leaving the last cheer station. Here we were discussing plans for our victory dinner.

At the Seattle Center -- Nancy, Nina, Danna and Sharon couldn't be smiling any bigger -- we had completed the walk and collected our reward shirt. Blue shirts are for walkers, white shirts are for crew and pink shirts are for Breast Cancer survivors. All participants were asked to wait together in a waiting area for the closing ceremonies. It is a sobering experience to look around the room and see so many pink shirts - I was scarey that those wearing the shirts were of all ages, all builds, all races - Breast cancer is not a disease that strikes other types of people - it could strike me or any one of my friends.

All the gear for all the walkers had to be delivered some how -- so it was all loaded into the parking lot near the stadium alphabetical by tent letter assignment -- NOT the easiest way to retrieve your luggage when you had just completed a very long walk.

For the closing ceremonies the walkers joined hands to walk in - we feel triumphant in completing the walk.

Someone brought along one of the many cautionary signs from the trip.

As the survivors walk in wearing their pink shirts you are able to see the amazing number of survivors there were on the walk. Looking at these survivors I was proud that I had walked and raised money to battle this disease. Some of the money we raised went the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, a Seattle based cancer reasearch center. Some of the money went to help less fortunate women pay for treatments. Some of the money went to educational programs. Some of the money went to early detection programs. All to help ensure there are more survivors! Thank you to all friends and family who donated money towards my sponsorship.