Friday, August 04, 2006

Buffalo and Beyond

The day started with an early morning wake up call at the Harvey's. Apparently the kids Savannah, Noah, and Grace were worried that we would over sleep. Savannah immediately walked down stairs and took Claire's "Dora the Explora" covers, and Noah began asking me and Tom if we wanted to play "Star Wars" on the PS2.

Soon everyone gathered in the kitchen for a family breakfast, and then we took off for the hospital. Roswell Park Cancer Institute is where Savannah is going to be treated when she turns 5 this fall, and this was the Harvey's first visit to the hospital.

Two news channels and a newspaper where at the hospital, and they interviewed us and the kids. Afterwards we took a tour of the facility with the child life staff, and then we headed back to the Harvey HQ.

At the home base, I played a quick round of "Shrek Super Slam" versus Noah while Savannah egged us on. Noah explained that Shek's power up was a "big green fart." So . . . let's just say we had a farting competition all afternoon. Noah thought it was hilarious.

At dinner we went to Andrea's parents house and had a cookout with their family and friends, and I ate a record amount of food: 8 buffalo wings, 3 slices of pizza, 5 shrimp, 1 strawberry shortcake, 2 handfulls of potato chips, some pretzels, 2 brownies, celery, 1 tub of blue cheese, 2 meatballs, and a coke . . . mmmmm . . . bring it on Noah. I've got this farting competition all wrapped up. ba ha ha

Tomorrow we're going to visit this local waterfall that is supposed to be famous . . . what will it be? Where will Rally Across America go next? Stay tuned to find out.

~ Austin

1 comment:

Austin said...

I feel that I should defend Savannah...for the record, she didn't steal my covers until after I was awake!