Atlanta Success!!!

We held an Outback fundraiser today in honor of Sean Dever, our Atlanta hero. It was a school day for Sean and his friends, but the principal and the teachers of his school (Queen of Angels) let them out of school to come to our fundraiser in his honor. The Roswell Outback, once again, was an excellent host and they helped things run smoothly the whole time. Over 175 people turned out for Sean, making it our best attended event of this year's trip. We also celebrated Sean's 12th birthday, which is tomorrow, complete with cake and candles. The team decided to donate all of the money that we raised in Sean's honor to fund a research trial for his type of cancer, osteosarcoma (bone cancer).

After the fundraiser we went to visit Children's Health Care of Atlanta at Scottish Rite, joined by Dean, the founder of the Rally Foundation, Donna, our meticulous accountant, and Becky (Austin's aunt). We met several more kids, handed out several more whale hats and took several more pictures of our new friends and this impressive facility.




After we left the hospital, Austin and Paul went to go pick up their bikes from Roswell Bicycles, after having given them to Frank (our contact from Roswell Bicycles), who took them from us at Outback to perform some much needed repairs. Roswell Bicycles tuned up our bikes, provided us with some more necessary biking equipment and outfitted our support car with a Roswell Bicycles graphic. Austin and Paul then met up with everyone else at Claire's house for another top-quality dinner and began to worry about all the scary stories they had heard earlier that day about how many mountains (not hills) they would have to ride up during each remaining leg of the trip. Nightmares of never-ending hills are likely to follow tonight.

No one said it would be easy.

~ Paul and Austin