Inspired to Stop Diabetes

Tomorrow is the big night! It is time for the annual American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) black tie gala “Inspired to Stop Diabetes” at the Treasure Island Resort & Casino in Welch, MN.

This will be my first year volunteering/attending the Gala. I am pretty excited to be helping out at the event! I still need to pick out what I am going to wear! It is encouraged that all volunteers dress up for the event and then bring a change of clothes while we “break down” and clean up our areas. I will be assisting the Silent Auction part of the event. I am excited to see all of the things that are up for auction! There is also a live auction, sit down dinner and entertainment. All of the money raised goes to support diabetes research, information and advocacy for the American Diabetes Association.

I checked out the website for the event and was a little shocked at the price for the event: $200 per seat or $1,500 to sponsor an entire table of eight guests. A little crazy, it may seem at first, but I am sure that it is worth it for the guests and for a great cause. I look forward to posting a response post to this one after I volunteer at the event tomorrow night. It is going to be a late night of fun! I will be down there from 4:30 set-up to 11pm, probably a little later than that.

I am also involved in the ADA’s Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes annual walk event. I will post when I have my page up and running. I am waiting for the leader of my Walk team to get in gear and re-register the team so I can build my personal Walk page!

I love volunteering for these events! I might try to do a walk next year for animals because it would be fun to have Tucker walk too. We tried to bring Tucker a couple years ago, but there were “no animals allowed,” so Derick had to bring him home. Well, we tried! Maybe next year we can find a walk for animals! I know that the local Humane Society puts one on in early May, but we missed that one! Oops!


-L