Race For The Cure, Portland-Style

  My sister Romaine is once again guest-blogging, this time on the Portland, Oregon Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure that she participated in yesterday. 
    Though the  photos look like Portland on  pretty much any day of the week  (just kidding -  well, maybe just a little, right?  ;]),   yesterday the city was really out struttin' its stuff for the Race for the Cure, to which  I'll now let Romaine testify:
 
 Yesterday I did the Portland Race for the Cure with my friends Atsu and Jo. Here’s is a picture of the three of us right before we started the race. 

    There were all kinds of people at the race and many were dressed in their finest pink Race for the Cure attire.
    This woman was dressed for the Race for the Cure Costume Ball:

     The Good Boobie Fairies were also there:

      Here was another fairy directing race traffic:

       These ladies were all related.  Pink mustaches must run in their family:

      There was plenty of entertainment on the sidelines as we walked the 3 mile race course including a marching band, marimba players, a rock band and these hula dancers:

      There were many volunteers stationed throughout the race course handing out water:

      And there were plenty of cheerleaders stationed throughout the route to cheer us on:

      If you are a breast cancer survivor, as I am, when you come to the end of the race you are ushered down a separate finish line where each survivor gets a big round of applause and is handed a pink flower.   But really I think it should the other way around.  I think we the survivors should be the ones applauding all of the people who come out and race to find the cure every year.  I know that it’s because of all the research money and awareness generated by these events that my cancer was found early and my treatment was minimally invasive. Thank you to all the fairies, hula dancers, pink mustache ladies, ladies in pink masks, cheerleaders, volunteers, Jo and Atsu too!  I applaud you!
   And I applaud you, Romaine!  You're a gift to the planet.