Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, so I want to start out by giving thanks to everyone that has came into my life at one point or another. I want to thank my Mom and Step Father for raising me to the best of their ability and backing me in anything I wanted to pursue. I want to thank my Dad for being a man and not leaving my side throughout all the hard times in both our lives. I want to thank my sisters, Janel and Katie, for being the best sisters a young man could ask for and teaching me all I know about the lady folk. I want to thank the Swarbrick family for being such an amazing family and treating me like one of their own. I want to thank all of my friends for dealing with me and some of my antics, while at the same time giving me some of the best memories that I will cherish for eternity. I want to thank everyone at MaxPreps.com for working hard throughout the country and for making this road tour the success it is. I also want to thank Andy and Chad for trusting me and giving me the opportunity to not only travel and watch football, but to try and make something with my life at such a young age. Thank you to everyone I might have missed, and thank you to everyone that enters my life from here on out because it is you that makes me the person I am, and the person I want to be.
Enough with the gushy stuff, and on with what happened today on the road tour. St. Louis is the gateway to the West, and the Gateway Arch is not only the nation's tallest man-made monument, but the symbol of this city that first discovered peanut butter. Lewis and Clark started their journey to the uncharted West from here, which makes me think that we are going to be doing that same route next week, and that Lewis and Clark are very similar to Mike and I. We are two young men that are on a voyage that has never been done before in the high school football world. We have to deal with hostile conditions and navigating unfamiliar territory. We are the 2006 version of Lewis and Clark, Stonebraker and Wilkes, has kind of a nice ring to it.
That was off the subject just a little, so I will keep this short. Today, we went to the top of the Arc and walked around the city. Have a Happy Thanksgiving and thanks again!