(Backup) (Backup) Day Two 9-25-18

Woke up at 7:30am, eating breakfast , it’s 12:47pm, just finished lunch, we had salmon, salad, rice and Caesar salad. In the morning, we had training and it was really good! 






















It’s 5:29pm. The session ended, and a group of us are going on a tour. But first dinner. I learned a lot today, we made up our own workout, put things like (oranges, strawberries etc in our water, talked about stretching, what is healthy, emotionally and physically.  And we played a few games. It was a good day.


It’s 10:24pm, been back from the tour for an hr. It was a blast! Was great weather for it too! Saw the White House from a far! But I still got a good pic. There was a group of us who went on a tour. It was very nice and educational. Another full day tomorrow! 

(Backup) Special Olympics Health Messenger in Washington DC 9-24-18

Day one: Touring DC 9-24-18

Woke up at 5:30pm. Got everything ready and took care of the dogs. We picked up Allen Tobin at 6:45am. On our way to the airport to go to DC! 

Arrived at Washington DC at 11:30am, 






It’s 3:48pm, and we are going on a tour. I’m looking forward to it!

We went on a tour, and it was amazing! Saw some cool stuff! It’s 7:18pm, and I’m tired! 

(Backup) Ribbon cutting of TLC 9-13-18

Woke up at 7am this morning. On my way to Jefferson City Missouri to see the new Training For Life Campus! I’m so excited to see it! 

It’s 12:58pm, WOW just finished the tour and lunch! The building is FANTASTIC!! I was SO amazed when we drove up, I remember when I first saw the lot and they were starting to making plans and started to work on it. And now I’ve seen it in person, it’s a great building, I can’t wait until it’s fully done. There’s a track, basketball court, separate rooms for meetings. The pictures in TLC is FANTASTIC! Saw many similar pictures of the walls. There was a lot of people there (donors, SOMO staff, families, and athletes) I had a little blurb to say, I was a little nervous at first and when I got the handle of it, I was more at ease it. Practice makes perfect! I was so glad I was able to come and experience this time with my SOMO family. Please enjoy the pictures. 

Bold is me

“Arthur Murphy Hi Arthur, what are you more excited for about this campus? The surroundings and everything”

“Robb Eichelberger- Hi Robb, what do you think about the TLC? Its a dream come true! It’s a place our athletes can call home! Are you excited? I’m more than excited!  I’m sure the athletes would be excited too? Yes definitely!

Kansas City metro bocce tournament 9-9-18

So it’s 7:26am, and I’m debating if I should get on the bike for an hour before church, because I won’t have a chance to exercise today. The reason is because I have church then after that I have a bocce tournament,  and that’s a whole day event, but Jesse and I enjoy it! We will get to see some of our national friends we made on Team MO! Well I decided to get on the bike. Before I forget....I been watching for the weather like a hawk! Today will be a beautiful day for a bocce tournament. Special Olympics Missouri has multiple tournaments today. The South West metro  also has flag football and bocce tournament too! 

It’s 9:20pm, what day we had, but it was fun. I got gold in single and silver in doubles, Jesse got a bronze in singles and in doubles. I did pretty good in my singles and ok in doubles. Right after church I had to rush to the tournament, so I rushed to my team in the stands and got on my bip and sat down my bag, when I got to the court, I thought they said I was disqualified, I was so glad I heard there wrong! We were just waiting for a court to be free. There is some stuff I need to work on, the weather was beautiful!! The thing I liked when we got our medals for the doubles, the team who got gold, they gave a gold medal to each of the athlete that was in their division, in my books, that was classy, as an athlete it made me proud what they did. So a high five for both of you!! I saw coach Judy and Pierce who are on the Trenton Dawgs team, we keep missing each other when we have a tournament to go too, Pierce and I had challenge for a week, who would have the most steps, Pierce was catching up with me, so I had to push myself harder when we did that challenge!! Oh I forgot about the volunteers.....they were great, the volunteers who helped me when I was competing in singles, they were very helpful, asked if we needed water and talked to us! I always like to see volunteers at our events, and I love to see little children who is helping out too! Put a BIG smile on my face!!