Our day

It's Tuesday evening and we are finally coming to the end of this day.

Let me say, it did not go as planned. :-}

We left our North Houston hotel this morning and arrived near the MD Anderson complex with some time to spare. That was great because it gave us an opportunity to stop in and visit the Terra Cotta Warriors exhibit at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences. What an incredible exhibit...I think my favorite part may have been the "live warrior" who took my hand and bowed as we made our way through.

After exiting, Larry took Amanda and I to MD for her first scans and he made his way to get us moved into our new hotel. From there the day was...trying, to say the least.

It took quite awhile for them to call Amanda back for her scan. We later learned they were having trouble with one of the machines and were behind schedule. While in the back, preparing for her scan, Amanda mis-judged the height of her scale and caught her foot. That caused her to crash, the nurses to scramble in concern and (needless to say) quite a commotion. Next thing I knew, out came Amanda with a nurse following close behind to let me know about the "incident". Thankfully, Amanda was determined to be fine (just a small bump on her shin) and we were approved to proceed.

Next we were moved to a different scanning area of the hospital where her scan finally got underway. We were thankful to have it go smoothly (no "incidents") and called Larry to come and pick us up. He offered to head right over.

Moments later, a call came from Larry informing us that when he went down to the parking lot, someone had vandalized our rental car. The driver's side window was smashed out, everything was missing from the glove box - including the new Garmin GPS system that we had just gotten him for father's day and were using for the first time.

One police report, one taxi cab ride, one powerful vacuum and lots of phone calls later we were back on our way to the rental office near Hobby airport in order to exchange rental cars.

We left tired, hungry and just thankful for a new vehicle...even a bright red Volkswagon Bug. :-)

Tonight found Amanda and I together in the outside pool, quietly talking about our day and about tomorrow. Scans will start early and we will not know results until later in the afternoon. That can make for a long day. But she is ready for the day and we both continue to trust that this is the path we will walk.

Our conversation included how thankful we are for the prayers that we know support us here in Texas as well as cover those members of our family who remain at home while we are here...

Thank you. Especially at times like this we lean heavily on those.