The Country Mice

We confess to not having gotten permission to publish these pics but hope the world is warm enough that they won’t mind.

Sitting in the (ahem) VIP section as we were (and just for your information, there happens to be a section labelled VVIP, ‘tho we have no idea what one gets with the extra V), we were surrounded by representatives from across the globe.

The highly official tags we non-athletes wear identify our country and also say we’re part of the IAAF “Family”  (international association of athletics federations).

At first I thought my credentials read “family” because I was travelling as someone’s spouse. Not sure I liked that.

Then I noticed there were a lot of us spousal “family” types walking around.

Wow! All these families travelling together to connect the world through athletics. What an amazing *sob* organization!

Then I saw that everyone else was wearing them.

Everyone.

Well, that’s okay because “We are fam-i-ly … ”

“I got all my sisters with me…”

“Get up everybody and sing…”

“Everyone can see we’re together…”

“Can we be that close…”

“We’re givin’ love in a family dose…”

“Have faith in you and the things you do.”