Day 232

I've been at Piedmont Park a couple of times this year and love how pretty and clean it is! Well today I was on the other side - I was cleaning it (well a bit of it)! I volunteered with the Piedmont Park Conservancy this morning and now have a greater appreciation of the park and the work that goes in to keeping it the way it is.

Piedmont Park Conservancy (which started off as a group of volunteers) is the nonprofit organization, working with the City of Atlanta for the preservation of historic Piedmont Park. Since their inception over 20 years ago, the Piedmont Park Conservancy has successfully transformed the once dilapidated Park into the most visited in green space in Atlanta. The Conservancy currently manages more than 90 percent of the Park’s daily maintenance care and security.

Today a small group of us took on the task of pulling weeds from various shrub bushes and from the day lily patch. One of the bushes was covered in a blanket of weeds, you couldn't see the shrubs anymore. We spent all morning pulling, cutting, and gathering weeds. The group was pretty quiet and really focused. We got done just a little before time so the coordinator treated us to a golf cart tour around the park.

This was the first time I'd done a project like this and I enjoyed it. I would definitely go back, once it cools down a little!

Day 99

It has been a great day of giving! We started the morning with the MS walk at Piedmont Park.

The walk is the rallying point of the MS movement, a community coming together to raise funds and celebrate hope for the future. All money raised helps drive critical research for a cure and services that address the challenges of everyone affected by MS.

Dona started her good deeds with wake up calls for everyone at 630am! We then all (well... almost all) met at the Park at 9:30 to get started with the walk. There were so many people out to support the movement - it was amazing!

It's funny that we all rallied together to support Fay Gibson, Raksha's Friend. And our little rockstar, Raksha was nowhere to be found at 9am! RAKSHA GOT LOST AND CLAIMS SHE WALKED 20K!! We believe that once she was confident that everyone was going to be there, and everything was in order, she went and got breakfast!

So many of our friends came out to walk with us so Raksha, Dona and I would like to say THANK YOU: Kelsi, Onyx (and Meredith), LeBlanc, Vern, Vikas, Lubna, Dyuti, Nehal, Samir, Shumaila, Maliha, and Jessica!!! You guys made this event phenomenal. We appreciate you guys giving up your Saturday morning to walk with us!

Day 100 is tomorrow and we couldn't have asked for a better Day 99 to kick off the celebration.

We're enjoying the rest of the day with our favorites and then heading out to Sutra Lounge in Midtown to continue celebrating this milestone! Everyone's welcome :)

Tomorrow we celebrate our 100th day with SHO. High Road Craft Ice Cream & Sorbet was able to donate ice cream for tomorrow, so we're all set to serve.

You're welcome to join us there as well!

~ Dona & Chandni