Meeting Mr. Brickley

Who is Mr. Brickley one might ask, well only the maker of fabulous ice cream enjoyed generation after generation in South County RI!!! 

After enjoying Caitlin's Birthday dinner, Melissa, Caitlin and I stop into Brickley's Ice Cream. The staff was cleaning up after a long hot day (it was 90 degrees out! In APRIL!) when we graced them with our presence :-). Melissa starts chatting with the kid at the counter, finding out that there are no more waffle cones and she demands a "special ice cream cone". He creates a some sunday like creation that looks like it is for kids, hehe! Melissa is overly excited about this and hopes that he will now figure out what Caitlin and I want for our ice cream, ya know since he is an ice cream genius!

Next thing I know this guy is staring intently at me attempting to figure out all of my ice cream desires. He chooses I think Oreo, which I would normally like, however I already had my heart set on Malted Milk Ball (yum yum). The he is on to Caitlin, for her he chooses Mint Chocolate Chip, which she also would normally like, but she too had already made a decision. 

Then Melissa pipes up, you are great at this YOU must be Mr. Brickley!! (shouted might I add, hehe) The kid who was doing a very well at playing along with our ridiculousness sadly states that he is not Mr. Brickley, but that his sister did marry into the family! haha wow

From this adventure we head back to Melissa's for a backyard  campfire! wooohooo Upon arrival Melissa screams out to Lloyd (who has already gotten the fire going...good job Mel...what a keeper!) WE MET MR. BRICKLEY!!!!! haha close enough right??

Again...never a dull moment

Trip to the ER

Who would have thought my first trip to the ER would be for splinter removal?? I know it sounds ridiculous! And yes I can be pathetic about pain...but this was a legitimate trip!

I was simply walking around Sam and Geoff's house as I was house/animal sitting, when it happened! I called Nurse Pam to come and assist the removal as it was rather stuck!

Pam arrives with her tools for proper splinter removal! As she takes a look at it she empathizes with my woa about how challenging it was going to be to remove. Now here I think it is important to provide a lil background... I HATE SPLINTER REMOVAL!! I realize HATE is a strong word but I have always been VERY AFRAID of splinter removal of any sort! Also, Pam and I had exams in the next few days.

Pam starts working on splinter removal while I attempt to distract my self on facebook and with music as I writhe in pain! (probably an over exaggeration, haha). Eventually, it is decided that with my low pain tolerance and Pam not having a scapula an ER trip was needed...how embarrassing! 

Thankfully, the South County ER was not busy and I was in a room soon. The doctor comes in an naturally finds out that I am a Pharmacy student from Maine...leading to a developing conversation!

I get a shot of lidocaine and he digs out the awful splinter...this time I was not in pain though haha. All the while he talks to me about pharmacy being a great profession and all about antibiotic stewardship as well as how girls from Maine are tough!! (haha I keep my mouth shut about this since I was being pathetic about 1 hour ago!!) Then he says, "So is your roommate a surgeon or pretending to be one?" haha this was in reference to Pam's attempt at splinter removal with improper tools haha!

So with my foot wrapped up and a prescription in my hand (to make sure that my foot didn't get infected since the splinter went just below the callous and puncture wounds are most likely to develop into infections) we were off!!

Never a dull moment...

Home again

I just wanted to let everyone know who has been keeping up with the blog and our trip to Florida that we all got home safe yesterday!!! YAY AND Kym and the crew got to ride in a limo home!! :-) She just loved that!!! Well back to school/reality today hehe!! :-)

Kym's Final Thoughts

I am excited to go back and tell everyone about about the once in a lifetime opportunity I was able to experience!!!

For the rest of my life I will always be thanking God for this trip and be remembering the blessings He poured out on us through it!

Kym is sooo pumped that her dream has finally been fufilled!!!!

Pray for safe travels for all of us tomorrow!!!!

GOODNIGHT :-)

Day #7 The Last Day :-(

Well Today we ate a late lunch after doing a lil sleeping in due to our late night rockin' out to Mercy Me!!! Then wandered around the area looking at the different All Star Resorts....we are staying in the All Star Music...but there is also a sports and movies! By this time it was getting into the afternoon so Kymmie and her Dad went back to the room to relax, Mom took a nap, Tiffany, Brian and Caleb also rested...and Joe and I went off to Blizard Beach!!!

Later in the afternoon Kymmie, her Dad, Tiffany, Brian and Caleb all hung around the pool. They said they had a great time, it was refreshing!! (fyi it was at least 90 degrees out) The cool thing around the pool....besides the water is that they have different events throughout the day, for example tossing around a large beach ball, dance parties and so on.

Meanwhile Joe and I were cooling down on the slopes at Blizard Beach!! hehe The rides were pretty sweeet there!! I think one of the most fun parts was watching ppl go down the Summit Plummet (most ppl went down it going 50mph!)

Tonight at Night of Joy we saw RED!! THEY ROCKED, and were LOAD (which Kymmie liked), she says it was a new style that she had never heard Christian songs being sung that way! Next was Casting Crowns!! Wow some amazing worship for sure!! Kym says they sung some of her favorite songs such as: East to West, and What if his People prayed; she also says she heard some new songs by them that could be some of my future favorites!!!

Kym says she has now seen 3 of her top 4 favorite groups!!!! The only one she has left now from that list is Third Day!

SideNote: It was amazing when this man came up to us and said he noticed that we were from Make a Wish (we were wearing our shirts) and wanted to know if Kym wanted to move closer telling us that they had extra seats near them....then asked us about her, hugged her and said he would be praying for her and that he was a cancer survior and works with Make a Wish frequently...I thought that was just a beautiful way for God to use one of his children to bless another :-)

Day #6 part 2

Night of Joy Part 1
After meeting Mercy Me we came back to the resort, quickly wrote EVERYTHING down and rested! Then we set off back to Hollywood Studios for the concerts at 6pm! Then we made our way through the part to the Stage where all the artists we wanted to see were playing at!! First up was Brandon Heath! HE ROCKED!! (Kym says she liked him) Then Chris Tomlin came on and we stayed for BOTH of his concerts b/c there were TOO many ppl around to go to another stage! Then at 11:15pm MERCY ME came on to ROCK the stage!!! Kym says she couldn't believe she was finally seeing them in concert!!! We stayed out late, and Kym loved it!!!!

Today we are chillin'/ waterparkin' it!!! AND tonight we are going to the second night of NIGHT OF JOY!!! YAY!!!

Day #5 and #6

Day 5 Family Arrives/Universal Studios:

Today Tiffany, Brian and Caleb came from GA!! It is so great having them here, Kym is so excited to have her sis, brother-in-law and nephew here to share in her dream! We went to Universal Studios for the afternoon. For lunch we ate at Hardrock Cafe and then went into Island of Adventures at Universal! We rode on a water ride that soaked us to the bone!!! haha

Day 6 Meeting Mercy Me!!

From Kymmie: At first when they were talking to me I couldn't believe it was them, then it finally hit me! Then they told me all of thier names and what important role they played in the group, and I thought it was cool. Woa it finally hit me to hear all of their voices talking around me, I realized I was in the backstage area for the 6 guys from Mercy Me. I told them I knew all the words to all the songs, except for the songs they haven't written yet, and the guys said Bart always screws up the lyrics; so they gave me permission to let him know when he messes up the lyrics tonight! . Dad called Bart... Baaaht (there is no r in his name anymore), and we introduced them to the Maine accent. Then Dad said when it started raining that it was like yesterday when we were on the ride at Universal Studios and I said, no its not, because Bart wasn't there. They offered to sign my frame, and two t-shirts writting their names and what their role is in the band. We talked about my brain, how my music memory was not effected in the accident and that I have a great music memory, and then Bart said I need to keep working on my Mercy Me lobe! haha Standing there right before we said goodbye I couldn't believe that I had just hung around Mercy Me and fulfilled my dream!! God made it so much more than I expected!!! They were all very down to earth people and spent a lot of time with us, and took the extra time to meet each one of the people that came with me (Mom, Dad, Joe, Tiff, Brian, Caleb, and Mandy). It was very evident that God was with us in this meeting. Walking away I was realizing what just happened and thought of how amazing it was!

Well gotta jet, computer is dying!!! Concert is tonight and we are all soooo pumped!!!