Day 812 – Grayson’s Journey

Dear family and friends

While most of the United States was thinking that this was Super Bowl Sunday (which it was) it was also Scout Sunday, celebrating the start of Scouting Anniversary Week. Scouting Anniversary week runs through next Saturday which is Scout Sabbath and commemorates the founding of the Boy Scouts of America in the United States in February 1910. Our church was packed with Scouts of all shapes and sizes this morning and many of the worship assistants performed their duties in Scout uniform instead of traditional vestments. It was quite a sight! Even Grayson appeared in the Assistant Scoutmaster uniform that he wore prior to his injury.

We did watch the Super Bowl today and the most fun thing for us after the game was to watch Ramses Barden touch the Vince Lombardi trophy after the game as it was carried to the podium. Ramses was a classmate of Grayson and a teammate of Austin at Flintridge Prep. Probably the only Flintridge Prep student to go on to the NFL and now he has a Super Bowl ring to go along with his 2003 CIF Championship ring. How cool is that!

Austin and Xixi dropped by for a short time to see the end of the Super Bowl and so Grayson got a full dose of Scouts, sports and family today. Tomorrow we are back to the regular schedule!

Pax!

Brant