On April 25th, Jason, Caleb and I participated in The Rescue...a global event aimed at raising awareness about the child soldiers in Africa. It was sponsored by an organization called Invisible Children (http://www.invisiblechildren.com/) that is working to rescue children in Central East Africa who have been abducted and forced to fight as soldiers in a rebel militia. The Rescue event took place in 100 cities all over the world and involved thousands of people "abducting themselves" and waiting to be "rescued", which required the attendance of cultural and/or political leaders as well as media coverage of the event.
Jason, Caleb and I headed to Denver where we met up with about 2,000 people in a park near the Capital. We then walked, single-file and holding onto a rope, through the streets of the city to another park a few miles away. Since it would have been too complicated with Caleb, we didn't stick around and wait to be rescued. It was a cold, rainy day so I wasn't too disappointed that we had to leave. But I was glad that we got to do the march at least. Caleb's little hands got pretty cold, but he was a really good sport. Here are a couple of pics of Caleb's first rally. :-)
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