Rochester Welcomes You

We are VERY tired tonight. We were up bright and early at 4 a.m. this morning to get ready to leave for the airport. My Mom arrived at 5 to drive us there. Thanks Mom!! We got there with just enough time to check-in and get through security. I really hate going through security!

Our flight was delayed 50 minutes due to some people arriving late and the back up at the check-in counter. The pilot made up some time during flight and we landed 30 minutes late.

We went across the street to Mall of America to burn a couple hours before heading to Rochester. We ate at Bubba Gump Shrimp and just browsed the first level.

The drive in to Rochester was nice and quiet. The scenery is so different from home. There are green fields, mostly corn, and big red barns. Lots of big American flags flap in the breeze as well. It was very pretty.

We had some problems checking in to the hotel. It didn't have to do with the hotel, but with the credit card we planned on using. Credit card companies are heartless and greedy!!! The man working at the front desk, Ben, was awesome and said there was no way he was going to turn us away. We will deal with it in the morning and he said not to worry about a thing. He said that we should focus on the reason we are here and not to let this worry us. How awesome is that??? This is the same hotel we stayed at last year, and we will stay here when we come back again.

The appointments begin first thing in the morning. Rick is scheduled for bloodwork and an ultrasound early tomorrow morning. They are like vampires here and will take a LOT of blood tomorrow. He had to eat a fat free meal tonight and now can't eat anything until he is done tomorrow. Hopefully it won't take a long time and he won't have to wait too long to be able to eat again.

He is scheduled to see Dr. Lindor early Tuesday morning and we will go from there as far as any other testing that gets scheduled.

I will post some pictures tomorrow. I would have posted some tonight except that I left my usb plug for my memory stick at home so we have to go to WalMart tomorrow and pick one up.

Keep Rick in your prayers that the blood draw goes smoothly tomorrow. Ever since he got sick this spring his veins have decided that they DON'T like to be poked.

Until next time,
Jaime