Days 37 & 38 @ UM

Remember the Double Mint commercial, Double Your Fun?  Well we had a little of that last Friday, courtesy of Joe Crabb, Ravae Wilson, and Max Schuler, Schuler, Schluler? from the Student Ministries at our church.  I don’t know what happened but here it is.

Same Arrangement, Same Card, Same People!  Thank you, Thank you.

Drew came A2 last Friday, a little later than usual, but still hungry.  We met at the hotel and then visited Tracy for a while and then headed out for dinner.  It was a first for Drew, not the first time eating this type of food, but I think it was a first for dinner, Ramen!  We went to Tomukun Noodle Bar for dinner and it was really good.

Saturday started slow but was an ok day.  I got up and made my customary 6:30AM call, it was a good night.  I rolled over and went back to sleep until 8:30, got up had breakfast and was in Trace’s room by 9:30.  I went to our room around 11:30 and Drew was up, dressed and ready to eat.  We had breakfast for him lunch for me in Ypsilanti.

We returned and spent some more time with Tracy and then Drew went back to the room to do homework.  I am so proud of him; he continues to excel at school, in spite of all that is going on. 

He called later and asked when we were going to dinner (I know that means can we eat now).  So we headed out again.  We ordered Thai food from Tuptim; we had eaten there before on the advice of the Burchi’s.  This time Drew only ordered one entre.

We returned with the food to Tracy’s room to watch the Lions in their first playoff game that Drew can remember.  We were both excited and tried to get Tracy excited too, fat chance on a good day. 

Well the first half was great, the second not so great, as we went from winning to losing to lost.  We were happy with the season they had, just wish we could have been to more of their games.

After the game we prayed with Tracy and headed back to the hotel to start the next day.

Sunday was a busy day.  Drew actually got out of bed before 9AM so he could have loaded hash browns from the cafeteria.  We got to Tracy’s room around 10AM and Drew returned to the hotel to do some more homework.  DeAnn Rohloff showed up around noon to see Tracy, just as Drew and I were leaving to go watch the Wisconsin and Michigan basketball game.

DeAnn was pleased with Tracy’s progress, as she had not seen Trace since before Christmas. 

While at the game Drew and were walking around the concourse and there was a trophy case dedicated to Cassie Russell.  I told Drew that he was one of my first basketball idols while playing for the Golden State Warriors along with Nate Thurman, Rick Barry, and Jeff Mullins.  I can’t remember who the 5th starter was 4 out of 5 is not bad!

Then in the first half, whom did they welcome back?  

Cassie Russell himself!  It was a thrill for me.  We really enjoyed the game, commenting to each other how much fun it was to watch a game and not care who won; as neither of us are Michigan sports fans, just Hospital fans.  At halftime we decided to play cribbage on our phones and the next thing we knew, it was 6 minutes into the second half.  Michigan controlled the entire game and won rather handedly.  Drew admitted that he was rooting for Wisconsin kind of because he felt sorry for them.  As they had lost the Rose Bowl to our Oregon Ducks and then lost on a last second shot, that was ruled too late, to Michigan State three or four days earlier.

When we got back to the hospital, Drew went back to the room to pack up some and put some finishing touches on his homework, as went to Tracy’s room.  I had only been there 20 minutes or so when Ann Marie Collins and Patti Crow showed up with this HUGE bag of Panera sandwiches!  It was the first time since our Troy Beaumont days that they had seen her and they were also impressed with Tracy’s progress.

They left and Drew followed shortly after.

It was nice to see all three of Tracy’s friends from her Kmart days.  And by the way Tom and Barb thanks for the cookies they were good.  I was just surprised it wasn’t signed from Burgers & Beers on the Beach!

Well that pretty much wraps up the weekend here.

God Bless and “Never Give Up… Never Ever Give Up!”

Rob