Making Memories

Dave left me a comment for my last posting that has inspired me to write about a thought that I've had for while.

After the SNAFU'd diagnosis, a good friend of mine (Mike) offered himself up as my own Make-A-Wish foundation. You see, Make-a-Wish-Mike works for COMCAST TV and can get tickets to many different events. So he took it upon himself to get my kids and me tickets to opening day for the Nats. We had third row seats right by the Phillies dugout on the 3rd base line along with tickets to a pregame party (food, drink, and fun with friends). Emily proclaimed that she liked hanging out with the rich folks. The game was a blast and the Nats actually managed to keep it close, almost pulling off the upset. We had a blast & a great day of memories!




Next Make-a-Wish-Mike went and got us tickets to game 5 of the Caps vs. Rangers hockey series. MaW-Mike gave us tickets that were right behind the goal, 10 rows back. Pretty cool! If you recall this was the game where the Caps were down 3 games to 1 in the series and they need to win the rest of the way to get to the 2nd round of the Stanley Cup. Well, the Caps won, the kids had a blast, and I had a wonderful time with my kids and another set of great memories. The only thing we lost that night were our voices from cheering too much! Mike came with his son and had a few good memories too!




Make-a-Wish-Mike then took it upon himself to get us tickets to a day of soccer. We were treated to a double header at RFK stadium with the Washington Freedom opening the day and DC United finishing it up. Unfortunately Stephen couldn't make the game so Emily had the joy of bringing a friend. MaW-Mike got us tickets that were on the field. Basically we were so close to the field that we could have reached out and touched the players as they performed a throw-in. Very cool! Better yet, as the game ended, we were escorted to the side of the field with the team benches and our escort arranged for the girls to meet the players of their choice. Autographs, hugs, pictures, for the girls and I got to shake a few hands. Pretty cool again!






Good times all! Good memories all! Thanks Make-a-Wish Mike. It's pretty cool to have more great memories and some darn good fun! Life is good! Take that beast, more good living!





PS: Don't tell Make-a-Wish-Mike that the SNAFU diagnosis was reversed. He might come to his senses and stop giving us some really cool tickets!