911 Gives Hope- Guns Vs. Hoses

Saturday, Eric and I took a day-cation to Evansville for good laughs, great, food, quality time, and an awesome cause.

We had all day to just take the time and enjoy each other's company. We did take a quick detour to say hello to a long lost friend in Lanesville. Every year Eric takes this trip around June to pay his respects to a good friend and classmate from the Police Academy that paid the ultimate sacrifice one day trying to do his job: protect and serve. Whenever Eric takes this trip, I haven't been able to go, so today since this trip was to support his Brothers in Blue, we took an extra trip to Lanesville to visit Frank Denzinger. This was my first meeting with Frank. I just wish I had the chance to meet him on this side. I hear he was a wonderful man. We have his picture hanging in our living room. I admire his wife, Tara Denzinger, for being the strong woman and mother she is to continue to be after her loss. Not to mention we share the same name, as well as our sisters. Her sister's name is Tia, as well as mine. How ironic.

Once we got to Evansville, we went down by the river enjoying the weather, walking, people watching, and even checking out the Casino boat. While we were down by the river, we stopped at Dr. Jung's (the Dr. I work for) parents' restaurant. I can't even describe how delicious the food was!! It was better than P.F. Changs.

A charity event brought us to Evansville. It was put on by a group called '911 Gives Hope.' They put on a boxing match called Guns Vs. Hoses, which is police officers vs. firefighters. (Go Guns! I'm a little partial).

The opening ceremonies were awesome! They did an excellent job giving everyone in the stadium cold chills. The boxing matches were 3 rounds of 1 minute fights. Eric had a friend from Vincennes, that is a police officer fighting. Of course he won. He did great! We were so proud of him supporting the blue so well!

This is part of the opening ceremonies, where they are introducing the police officers and firefighters.

On one side of the stadium they had the police officer and firefighter on a podium, representing the group '911 Gives Hope.'

This is kind of hard to see, but, it's a police car with the lights on, and behind it is a fire truck extending the ladder with the American flag on the front. They extended it into the center of the ring for the National Anthem. They later announced that the flag had actually been over seas with our troops.

The SWOT members and Firefighters post National Anthem. You can sorta see the flag at the top of the picture.

This is Eric's friend, Chris Roe ( in the blue), boxing the lights outta the red! Way to go Chris!!

The charity event was absolutely amazing. Their community rallied together for such a great cause! Eric and I have decided we will make it an annual event! Anyone wants more info on it, just let us know!