We took a nice relaxing day off yesterday. It was a beautiful day outside, and we took the opportunity to get some much needed R&R. I went to Mountain Equipment Co-op in the morning with one of my cousins in order to pick up a few essentials, came home and got ready for Brenns big surprise. We had been talking about her surprise for days and days, ever since we found out that one of my good friends got us a hotel room at the Pan Pacific Hotel in downtown Vancouver for the night. it was beautiful. Our room over-looked the harbor we were right above the cruise ship dock, and were able to watch a couple cruise ships leave in the evening, and a couple more arrive this morning. We had a great view also of Stanley Park, and the sea plane port. Brenn and I had a great time watching all the action in the port through the evening.

It was such a beautiful night that we decided to go for a walk around Canada Place around 8 pm. We thought that all would be okay if Brenn did not wear her hat...we learned a valuable lesson here. Brenns hair is now very thin, you can see her scalp clearly all over her head now, and with all the medications that she is on, she is sensitive to sunlight. I was able to shade her head with my shadow throughout our walk, but next time, she will most definitely be wearing a hat. We had also covered her entire body in SPF 60 sun block, so she was probably all right anyway, we are just really paranoid about everything. It was a very relaxing, and fun evening last night, and we are all in much brighter spirits today, other than Samantha, who had a really hard time going to sleep last night. I finally had to lay down with her around 10:30 so that she would settle down and go to sleep. She had a good nap in the car this afternoon though, and felt much better after that.

Brenn is still feeling pretty good, she still has some trouble with walking, and getting up and down from sitting, but she is much more willing to play. We have a clinic day tomorrow for another battery of blood tests, and another possible infusion of Albumen (a blood protein), then Tuesday is a day off, then Wednesday is another clinic day and a meeting with the oncology team to go over our next step. We will find out which side of the study we will be in as well on Wednesday. Thursday is is likely the start of her next round of treatment, depending on her counts mainly on Monday, but also on Wednesday. We will be seeing a lot of the hospital this week, but it will be made quite a lot easier when my brother arrives for a visit on Tuesday, and Brian and Beth Hillhouse arrive on Thursday. We are really looking forward to the visits. We haven't seen my brother since a week before Brenn came down to Vancouver, it will be really nice to see him, and his family.

It was a really nice weekend this weekend. We really didn't have many medications to give Brenn, just two in the morning, and one in the evening. It was a nice break, but it will be back to reality this week. It was a tough month on our family, and for the first time, last night, Christine and I were really able to sit down and talk to one another about how hard and frustrating, and maddening the whole situation has really been for us. We both knew that we felt frustrated, but it was good to get all our cards on the table, and talk about it so that we can help each other more. Thank you for your prayers, and please continue to pray through this week, that we will find the proper course of action, and that Brenns blood counts are all good so that we will not have to postpone her treatment.

Thank you all for your continued support, we feel blessed every day by all who know us.

Scott