Crazy Saturday

Allison, Stacey and I left Des Moines at about 7:30AM so that we could meet Stacey's parents in Iowa City to do a little tailgating before the big Hawkeye game vs Wisconsin. Good thing we left early because my car broke down about halfway there just outside of Victor, Iowa. Allison used her internet on her phone to call a tow truck from Victor. We got towed 43 miles to a Chevy dealership in Iowa City. There were 4 people piled into one tow truck... not comfortable and not cheap.'

Luckily we have amazing family to help us out! Stacey's parents came and picked us up and my parents dropped off one of there vehicles so that we could drive back to Des Moines while my car was in the shop this week. Thanks for the help from everyone! We are truly blessed!

After all that we finally got to our tailgate spot about 2 and a 1/2 hours before kickoff. We had a blast tailgating and made the most of what had already been a really long day. The food was great and we had a really good time. Then the dealership called and said what was wrong with my car. Wow it was going to be really expensive to fix. Thank God we have a mechanic in the family. My Brother in Law Rick is amazing with vehicles and knows all of the right people to help us out. He knows someone that he worked with that would fix the car for us for about a 1/3 of the price that the dealership wanted to charge. My car is getting towed on Monday and should be fixed sometime later this week.

Then we went to the Hawkeye game.... Ouch.... It was an absolute heart breaker. The Hawks lost in the last minute by one point. If they just would have had any of the big plays go there way it would have been a W for the Hawks but the Badgers converted on our mistakes and you have got to give credit where credit is due. We were all frustrated with our beloved Hawkeyes and then we got caught in traffic in Iowa City. We ended up in a parking garage trying to get out to no avail. The traffic was so bad that it took us about 2 hours to get from our spot near carver back to the dealership. It was crazy. We were physically and emotionally drained from the day .

We drove back to Des Moines and when we finally got home around 10:45 we were all ready for bed. It was not a good day. It was expensive, draining and heartbreaking but then I thought about how God doesn't give us more than we can handle. I decided to flip the whole day around and think about the positive. No one got hurt when my car broke down. We were lucky that the towing company in Victor was even open, otherwise what would we have done? We are blessed to have amazing families to help us out. We got to spend time with Stacey's family, ate good food and had a lot of fun at the tailgate and last but not least we have another really good story to tell people.

Some day's are not good day's (Saturday was definitely one of those day's) but we can't control what happens we can only control how react to it. I thought about it and I told Stacey that if my treatments are working and my Pet Scan goes well on Thursday then I really could care less about any other things that don't go our way. Sometimes it's all about perspective.

God Is Good,

Brian Pritchard