Emily and I have determined that attending the downtown Christmas parade is going to be a new holiday tradition for us. The parade route traveled along south Main and featured lots of Christmas floats, marching bands, cool cars, and strange green people standing on top of buses (see picture below). Best thing about the parade? It's completely free. Even parking was really easy and free.
Also on Saturday was the St. Jude Marathon. This is one of the best events in Memphis, raising money for one of the best organizations in the world. This year there were nearly 16,000 runners! It was really incredible to watch the thousands of runners making their way through downtown Memphis. Part of the route came through our neighborhood (Uptown), where I helped with an "aid station". Below are a couple of pics from Uptown's view of the St. Jude Marathon. 
Note: Congrats to Laura Beth and James on completing the half marathon!
Did you happen to see any Bills? You may not even know what they look like but my oldest brother, Pat, and youngest sibling, Katy, ran the half together.
Wow - that's great! I didn't see either of them, but I'm sure they ran right past me. I think I've either met or seen pictures of both of them, but I'm not sure I could have picked them out in the crowd of runners.
Do they do any kind of marathon/10k/5k races in Peru? I'm guessing the terrain over there would make that a little difficult.