Relay For Life and Balls and Strikes

Often times during the summer, we find ourselves getting so busy, that we need to have a weekend to recover from our weekend. This weekend was one of those.

Friday night, we both attended the Waverly Relay For Life, an event that took in more than $32,000 for research, education, advocacy and research for the American Cancer Society. Having recently purchased a new video camera, I took it upon myself to shoot some footage and create a short video on the event and will do so at all Relays that I will attend for the rest of the summer. Below you'll see a "rough draft" of the video.

Saturday was a cleaning day for Lisa while I attended another Relay For Life, this time in Omaha at Millard West High School. It's Nebraska's largest RFL and was goaled at $475,000 (no word what was actually raised yet).

On Sunday, we made the trek to the College World Series in Omaha. We suffered through seven innings of a blowout game with Fresno State dropping Rice 17-5. Even though it wasn't much of a game, we really enjoyed the atmosphere. It's great to have such a unique event so close to home. Believe it or not, no silly questions from Lisa during the game like "Why do they keep itching and spitting?". However, she was rooting for Rice because (and I quote) "Mmmm, I like rice" although I think she's getting this baseball thing down pretty well. :)