Tomorrow is April 22. What does this mean? That from tomorrow, we have one month until our 100k Trailwalk.

So last night we had a meeting. Ken, Rae and Jeff came over to my place to make dinner and talk. First, we cooked Chicken Thai Rice... well, it was supposed to be Chicken Thai Rice, but we decided to fry the brown rice with some egg. What happened was what we call "Mush 1" (the first batch) and "Mush 2" (second attempt). Brown rice, apparently, doesn't fry well, especially with egg. We ate it anyway. Except for Jeff, who tried to scrape his serving of his own masterpiece, Mush 2, back onto the communal plate.

After our feast of Chicken Thai Mush, we had our meeting. We talked about some new developments and important things. Of note:

1. We have a Support Crew! Toby and Sarah have agreed to meet up with us via car on parts of the trail to provide support, new clothes and food. Thank you, girls.
2. This weekend, we are hiking 60km for the Shizuoka Trailbiters' last big hiking venture together before the Big One.
3. Camping and hiking last weekend in Fujieda, with 20 friends, was a definite success.
4. We'd like to make t-shirts, but we're lazy.

But what was the most important subject of all in our meeting last night? What is the thing that gets us talking, reassures our purpose, and motivates us before our big 100? That we have received generous donations from our friends and family. Last night, we saw that we have surpassed our minimum donation amount of 120,000 Yen... which means we are officially eligible to walk the Walk. And, we are one-third of our way to reaching our target of 300,000 Yen. Sincerely, thank you!

We tied up many loose strings at our meeting last night. The only thing left bothering us was our lack of a team cheer; we've been sapping our creativity for a good one. On our early hikes, we tried making a cube with our hands, but Ken the Naysayer refused to add his hand and complete the cube. Out camping, we created the "Rocket", where we put our hands together and 'shoot' our hands upwards. Things got rediculous last night; particularly, the idea that we stand in a circle facing out, then Jeff turns inward and throws his hand into the circle, yelling, "Jeff!"; then, Rae turns around throwing her hand in and shouts, "Rae!" and then me, then Ken. And that, friends, was the unfortunate end to the meeting.

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