My first day started early (4:30) getting up to drive to the site.  It didn't really matter cause I had been waking up off and on all night to make sure I didn't oversleep.  Anyway, we got to the site, I dropped my gear and got ready to go.
The tears started0 at 7:30.  Right before the official opening ceremonies begain a rainbow appeared in a clear blue sky.  WOW.  As part of the ceremony we were told not to have a moment of silence but to say aloud of a survivor or someone we lost.  I should have picked a one syllable name cause that is all I could choke out.
Finally the walk started.  We wandered through some really nice neighborhoods and small business districts.  It did rain on us but our spirits were not dampened.  The only problem was that while we signed up for 20 miles per day they hit us with 23.  Doesn't sound like much but.....
Did I mention rain?  Well it is back.  The forcast is so bad that we have been relocated.  SO instead of sleeping on the ground in a tent with a stranger, we have occupied the seventh deck of a parking garage.
This is gonna be good.