Rowbust and Rowbust Dragon Spirit all came together at the Opening Ceremonies for the International Breast Cancer Paddlers' Commission Participatory Dragon Boat Festival in Sarasota Florida!
There were over 2,000 survivors present making up over 100 teams, plus another 2,000 volunteers and supporters. Every survivor was wearing a pink t-shirt so it was actually quite difficult to keep the team together because everyone looked the same!
The venue is beautiful and the weather is perfect...27 degrees and sunny!
Dr. Susan Love was our guest speaker and she was great. She had the audience laughing and really seemed to understand what the whole event was about.
We met a lot of teams and a lot of great people. Some of us had all of our pins traded before the evening was out!
Although there are buses twice a day to the venue it is close enough to walk so many Rowbusters are walking to and fro.
Saturday will be our first day of racing, we are excited and ready!
There were over 2,000 survivors present making up over 100 teams, plus another 2,000 volunteers and supporters. Every survivor was wearing a pink t-shirt so it was actually quite difficult to keep the team together because everyone looked the same!
The venue is beautiful and the weather is perfect...27 degrees and sunny!
Dr. Susan Love was our guest speaker and she was great. She had the audience laughing and really seemed to understand what the whole event was about.
We met a lot of teams and a lot of great people. Some of us had all of our pins traded before the evening was out!
Although there are buses twice a day to the venue it is close enough to walk so many Rowbusters are walking to and fro.
Saturday will be our first day of racing, we are excited and ready!