Snapdragons walk the Mother's Day Classic

We have been doing a few things other than fundraising for Canada.  On Mothers day a group of us took to the streets of South Bank in Brisbane.  We did the 4.5km walk for the Mother's Day Classic which raised funds for the National Breast Cancer Foundation to promote research into breast cancer prevention and treatment.  

Of course we did it in the loudest and brightest possible way!  The only way we like to do things! :)

We wore our beautiful new club uniforms and made sure everyone knew we were a team of breast cancer survivors and supporters.  We certainly got a lot of attention as you can see from the photos of the day.

A big thanks to our member Del for encouraging us all to join her this year.  I'm pretty sure we'll be back bigger and better next year!  Check out their website.  http://mothersdayclassic.com.au/

xoxo Jules

Aren't we gorgeous!!!

Del, our organiser!

We don't like attention (much!)

Yay! We Finished!

3 weeks!!!!

Getting closer!  only 3 weeks now. 

Here's a few more better quality photos from our Canada dinner.  Thanks to our resident photographer Rosie Bozzi.  Fantastic group shots, the lovely ladies from Zonta who are great supporters of our club and our coach Arthur and his wife Fran one of our survivor paddlers.

Received our travel documents on the weekend. So now we all know where we are supposed to be and at what time (very, very early morning flight!!!!)  We're all getting very excited now.

xoxo Jules

4 weeks to go!

Another week has flown by and now only 4 weeks left!  

A few pics from the Bon Voyage dinner as promised.........

Our Team of Survivors going to Canada

 

The whole Canada Gang!  Survivors and Supporters.

The ladies warming up their singing voices.

Will add more as they arrive in my inbox, i'm sure there's lots more yet!

xoxo Jules

Pinkies know how to Party!

We had our Canada  "farewell" dinner last night at the Moreton Bay Boat Club and I think it's safe to say all the Members, Family and Friends had a great time.  There'll be picture evidence coming very soon! 

Thanks to the fabulous efforts of our two members Sonia Anger and Lyn Grigg for organising it all.

The meal was lovely and we all enjoyed the dancing, hugging and singing after.  I'm sure the whole of Scarborough would have heard us!  Look out Canada,  the girls are all in fine form!  I think I know which two we'll be dragging off the dancefloor over there too.......hey Rosie and Maureen! ;o)

Exciting news that Rosie Bozzie and Barbara Tolhurst have been chosen to paddle in the Sandy Smith Global Race as representatives of our team.  This is a very special race honoring Sandy Smith and her contributions to breast cancer dragon boat racing.  Click the link for more information on this race http://www.survivorsabreast.com/2010-festival-program

And didn't we all look stunning in our new Team Uniforms too.  Thanks to Bendigo Community Bank Margate branch for sponsoring.

Sorry my pic is not very good from my phone but i've been promised lots to come from all our budding photographers there last night!  

xoxo Jules

Let’s start the countdown! Less than 5 weeks to go!

Our fabulous members have been working hard fundraising for over 12 months to get a Team to the International Breast Cancer Participatory Festival in Peterborough, Canada.  We’ve been planning our trip for so long it seems incredible that suddenly it’s almost here.  June 8th is coming around fast!

So what have we been doing the last 12 months?  (what haven’t we done!).  A little catch up to remind us all........

Our ongoing monthly Jetty Markets have been a fantastic source of fundraising as well as promoting Breast Cancer Awareness, Dragons Abreast Australia and Dragonboating.  They were lots of hard work but of course we managed as usual to make them a lot of fun too.

Then there were Garage Sales.  Lots of interest in our Team came from these. 

Of course we just had to have a sausage sizzle!  What’s fundraising without one?  Yep it poured rain, thundered and flashed lightning but the ladies (and gents) got out there with their raincoats and umbrellas enticing the customers in and starting up what we think is an Aussie first, the “drive through” sausage sizzle!!

And who could forget our “Pink Bits” 2010 Calendar.  Featuring 21 of our beautiful members (all Breast Cancer Survivors), male models from Vivien's Model Management and photographed by our survivor member Rosie Bozzi.

From all the “behind the scenes” stories of these photoshoots I don’t know who had the most fun, the ladies or the models. (I think I can guess though!).

No wonder the year has gone by in a flash!

xoxo Jules