Getting excited now. Our T-shirts should be nearly ready. I had an interview with The Geelong Independent and photos were taken on Monday. That article should be in the paper this Friday. I have sent heaps of emails out to different media forums in the last week so hopefully we will get the chance to tell our story a bit more yet - keep your fingers crossed!!!

So all in all, it seems to be going along okay. :)

Oh and I got my walking shoes so thanks to Marlene for helping me with that job.

Its nice to have something positive happening in my life again. Just enjoying the adventure.

Cheers everyone,
Michelle

Our walk stops are now fully confirmed. So this will be our plan:

We will arrive in Sorrento on Monday 8th April 2013.

Tuesday 9th April will be our first day's walk and we will walk 22.9kms from Sorrento to Dromana.

Wednesday 10th April we will walk 18.6kms from Dromana to Mount Eliza.

Thursday 11th April Steve will walk 22.7 kms from Mount Eliza to Chelsea Heights. (This will be a rest day for michelle)

Friday 12th April will see us both walk 13.6 kms from Chelsea Heights to Cheltenham.

Saturday 13th April is our final day and will see us walk 17.7 kms from Cheltenham to Boathouse Drive Alexandra Gardens Melbourne.

We feel this is quite a good plan that Michelle will be able to manage & we are excited now to get on with it!! We just hope the weather will be nice to us!!

Well its been a busy week and my to do list seems to be getting bigger!!

I would firstly like to say a very big thank you to everyone liking, sharing and supporting our walk. All your comments have been wonderfully encouraging and have really helped in so many ways. The willingness to share our face book page and info has been overwhelming. We feel very supported by you all. Going public for me is quite a big step, so thank you for helping me through this!!

We have just had all 5 days walking and accommodation confirmed yesterday. So I will post a rough outline of our plan that in the next day or so. So it is official..... The confirmed dates of WALK AWARE will be 9th -13th April 2013. This is exciting.

Now I am in the very early days of my treatment so I will have to be very careful about my limits. I plan to walk 10-15 minutes every hour and will use my wheelchair for the rest of the time. It is also likely that I may need to take the third day off. We are currently discussing this with my specialist and she will help me make a decision about this over the next week or so. If this is the case, Steve is more than keen to do this leg by himself and have me join him later that day - rested and ready to do the last two days. It will be hard for me to sit one day out but I know I must not do anything to cause me going backwards.

Now back to this week..... This week's focus will be on contacting the media, so emails and letters will be going out at a fast rate! I would like the opportunity to tell my story and of course let the public know about WALK AWARE

Well Thanks again everyone your support is very much appreciated :) keep sharing and supporting one another as it is those things that give us all hope and encouragement.