Evangelist Craig Cobb: A Personal Post Today

If you have been following, you know that it has been a very busy time for us this year. We have only been home and not in meetings about three weeks since Christmas. We leave again tomorrow for another couple of months and will not return back until our camp meeting at Old Time in late August. That being said, we have enjoyed being home and spending time with our family.

Stacie was able to visit with her grandmother last week - time that she treasures dearly because of two reasons. First, we are not home like we used to be so she only gets to see her a few hours whenever we are in town. And second, her grandmother turned 90 last year so as she gets up in years Stacie really values each visit.

Due to a weather-related accident over 4 years ago that destroyed their home, my mom and niece have lived with us ever since. Because we have traveled so much the last few years my mom jokes about us living with them and we have a great time together when we are home.

All that being said, we spent yesterday and today together just goofing off and having a big time. We have been shopping and sightseeing. Today we went down to the waterfront in Buffalo. Our original plan was to eat at a restaurant at the mouth of the Buffalo River called "The Hatch". It's a burger joint with good food.

While we were sitting and eating lunch at the picnic table watching the boats we noticed a little tour boat called the Queen City Ferry. None of us had ever seen this particular boat before, so I whipped out the old trusty iPhone and looked them up on the web. Well long-story-short, after we finished eating we walked down and waited to take a boat ride. There were only about 10 people total including us and the three of us had the back of the boat all to ourselves. The ride lasted an hour and went inland on the river then out on Lake Erie and into the Erie Basin Marina. We got to see some Buffalo landmarks: the NFTA train terminal, General Mills where Cheerios and Lucky Charms are made, the Edward Cotter fire boat, the Lake Erie lighthouse, First Niagara Center where the Buffalo Sabres play, the Skyway and much more.

There was a bit of excitement when a young girl on board lost her flip-flop overboard as we began to enter the Lake. The crew of two men (one captain and one assistant) provided much entertainment in attempting to retrieve the lost shoe. We backed up, moved forward and turned around. After trying everything from leaning over and retrieving it by hand to using the fire bucket, the assistant grabbed a pole with a hook on it and successfully snagged it. This little girl was so happy that she didn't face the rest of the day barefoot or with only one shoe!

Anyways, enough reading. I hope you enjoy a sampling of the pictures I took below. I posted more on our Photobucket site. Click here to see more pictures of our day on the Buffalo waterfront (Gallery on Photobucket).