This weekend is Memphis Marathon weekend. Saturday they will have 16,000 people participating. 3,000 in the full marathon, 8,000 in the half-marathon, and the remainder in the 5K Grizzle run/walk. This is all part of helping raising money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Friday night we participated in a Pasta dinner at the Peabody Hotel. This is a wonderful old hotel, probably most famous for the ducks. They have a fountain in the lobby and every day there is a little ceremony and red carpet rolled out and the ducks come marching down and swim in the fountain. I only hope someday to stay here. This dinner was for St Jude Heroes - for those who raised a $1,000 or more. They had a program afterwards with some awards. The food was great and they had several types of pasta and other tasty side dishes.
I think daddy got carried away with loading London up on pasta, you would think that she was going to run the race tomorrow.
I don't think I have every seen a tree so tall - they had two - one at each end of the lobby that went from floor to ceiling. I found a few decorations to take home with me - do you think anyone would miss them? The Christmas decorations were beautiful. This evening they had children singing Christmas carols.
The Peabody baking staff were on the Food Network and were in a contest for gingerbread. This what they made and they won first prize! It smelled so good - you just wanted to cross over the fence and sneak a bite.
After spending a little time downtown - we went back to the hotel - an early morning awaited us.
1 comment:
russ looks great! the peabody hotel is so beautiful we love seeing the ducks. we have been twice and last summer before last we took our grandkids there and they thought the ducks were Cool!!! i bought elvis P t-shirts in the shop of the peabody, where the great elvis bought most of his clothes, that why the can afford being in the peabody hotel all these yrs. the snow is so beautiful i love watching it come down (out the windows).
love, linda w
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