Great Manchester Run, Big Wheel and Little Fishies, and The Rapture

Last Sunday Yol and I took part in the BUPA Great Manchester Run, a 10K road race with around 38000 participants, and we were raising money for our charity of choice, the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. We managed to raise over £400, for which we would like to thank each and every one of our sponsors! I didn't take my camera on the run, but we did snap a quick photo after the race, back in our hotel room, with our newly acquired medals:



We ran the race together, it was our first time over that distance, and we crossed the finish line hand in hand with a time of 1 hour, 37 mins, and 20 seconds. No record by any stretch, but it's something we're both proud of personally! We've already signed up to take part in next year's run, and we're aiming to obliterate that time. If anyone would like to donate to this year's Run fundraising, our Justgiving page is open until the middle of August - many thanks!

As the run took place in the middle of the day on the Sunday, we'd booked ourselves into a hotel for the Saturday and Sunday nights, which gave us a little 'tourism time' on the Monday morning. Echoing the London Eye, the city centre has the Wheel Of Manchester, so we took the camera up into the heavens above the metropolis for some shooting!





You can get some lovely views from the Wheel if the weather is in your favour, so if there are any snappers passing by, I'd recommend it.

After the wheel, we wandered over to the recently refurbished Triangle centre, and in there Yol spotted an opportunity that was too good to miss:




'Silky Feet' in the Triangle is a place were you can get a 'fish pedicure', which involes dangling your feet into a tank of garra rufa fish, who nibble away and leave your feet feeling refreshed. Bottom line is, it tickles like heck! I spent most of the 15 minutes giggling like a schoolgirl. Not my finest moment, but it did feel good afterwards!

The full set of photos from our Manchester weekend can be seen on Flickr here.

US evangelist Harold Camping had predicted that The Rapture would take place at 6pm in each time zone on Saturday May 21 2011 and that "on the first day of the Day of Judgment (May 21, 2011) they will be caught up (raptured) into Heaven because God had great mercy for them."

All over the world, many people had scoffed at this prediction, stating that there was no way that the good and the righteous would be spirited away to Heaven at 6pm on Saturday. 6pm Saturday was also the start time of an extra on-ice session for the Buccaneers, the ice hockey team that I play for, and the start of our session was delayed a little bit because the Coach was Raptured! Here's the proof!:



Enjoy eternal damnation, you unbelievers! ;)

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