Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Ash Wednesday

Today is a national holiday here on Cayman giving us a well needed day off. We had planned to go to the agricultural festival but as we drove toward Savannah the traffic was backed up a few miles from the fair grounds. Deciding that we really didnt want to sit in traffic for an hour and a half to get into the festival, we headed home to a rest day of watching Planet Earth and some pre-spring cleaning.

Gypsy and Ginger get medicine twice a day for their ringworm and while Ginger dociley accepts the liquid and the pills, Gypsy fights us like we are trying to kill her with each drop of the medicine. Ginger has stopped crying all night and is now sleeping on our bedroom floor. Gypsy continues to sleep in the bed. At least they still have the dog like characterisitic that after a few minutes of being mad at us after they get the medicine they want attention and as Katie calls it their Luvins.

On Saturday we are headed up to Miami for a quick shopping, banking, working trip. we will be stopping off at the seminar which is going on to check in with the students but for the most part doing a lot of personal errands. We get back Sunday afternoon so it is a less than 36 hour trip. The following week is our memorial walk which we are both looking forward to both for the exercise of the 4 and a half mile walk and for the way the community has been reacting with the registrations and support/donations we have gotten. Yesterday the Cayman National Bank agreed to sponser and man a water station for us and we already had gotten donations of breakfast for the first 50 walkers and a donation of water and gatoraide for two water stations. We are hoping to raise at least $500 for the scholarship fund but even more importantly get the college back in the public eye with these type of events.