Lately...

I suck at blogging. I was waiting until I could post some pictures of New York, but it's taking to long...I'll have to do a picture post later. So I'm finally updating!

Welp...we went to New York and it was so fun! We did some touristy stuff like The Statue of Liberty and The Empire State Building...which were cool...not exciting, but cool. We went to Ground Zero...but they were just rebuilding, so there wasn't much to look at or reflect on or anything. We did see a stature/sculpture thing that was damaged in 9/11, but was the only thing still standing...it stands for peace...that was pretty cool.

The first night we went into Times Square (which we loved) and walked around...we ate at this restaurant called "Carmines" it was AMAZING! That was a great introduction to the city!

We stayed in Brooklyn with our friend Mia...so we got to ride the Subway a lot and it wasn't scary like the movies make it out to be.

We went to the firehouse from Ghostbusters...Eric was so excited! We went to the outside of the apartments from Friends and I was excited about that :) We also went to the outside of the Cosby house.

We went to a place called Magnolia Bakery that Bleecker recommended and we ate at a pizza place called Rays that Justin Brooks recommended...we ate there twice in fact :) It was dang good!

The best night by far was when we went to the Conan O'Brien show! It was so much fun! The guests were Anthony Hopkins, Joe Buck and freakin Mute Math! (disclaimer: I have started refering to Mute Math as freakin Mute Math because they are just absolutely freakin amazing) You can watch their performance here (it doesn't sound as great as it does live and it's kind of dark, but you get the idea):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClPkSWO89mc
We are going to see them Saturday at the House of Blues! Everyone should go...you can get your tickets on ticketmaster. They are freakin amazing!

So New York was good...it was the most exhausting trip I've ever been on..but luckily we got to go to Staff Retreat the next week and do absolutely nothing! Staff Retreat was awesome too of course. It was fun to play games and hang out and get to know everyone better. We played Mafia A LOT and I read A LOT. There was also a lot of silliness...like anytime Josh Patterson would get ahold of a microphone...I'm sure you can all imagine.

We also had some really good times of worship and good talks about the future of The Village. Steve Hardin came and spoke one night and it was really challenging to everyone. And one night we just prayed a lot. It was much needed for us all!

Besides those trips we have not been doing too much. I started re-watching Lost so that I can prepare for Season 4 which starts in January! I'm excited! We've been hanging out with lots of great friends and our home group has been so fun! The past couple of months have definitely been months of deepening friendships and I love it.

So yeah...that's my update! Sorry there aren't pictures yet.