A wonderful weekend!

This weekend was wonderful! It was my weekend off and I did so much great stuff that it felt like more than just a weekend. Awesome!

Avalon sings
Greg, Melissa, Janna, and Jeremi

Friday night the Rissers and I went to Spring Arbor, Michigan for an Avalon concert. It was in an area that is not the Christian music mecca that our county is, so we were some of the few people in the crowd that had been to an Avalon concert before. Denise is a member of the Avalon fan club, so we were able to go to a private "meet & greet" after the show. It turns out that she was the only person at the concert who was from the fan club, so it was just the Rissers, me and Avalon. We got to visit with them for about 15 minutes or so. They are very down to earth people and we had fun chatting with them for a bit.

Avalon and their fans!
Denise, Greg, Melissa, Deanna, me, Janna, and Jeremi

After the concert we went to a hotel about 30 minutes from Spring Arbor for the night. We stayed up late eating junk food, watching stupid tv and talking. It was a lot of fun! I absolutely LOVE staying in hotels, so that would have been fun enough, but to have such great traveling companions was icing on the cake!

Saturday we spent several hours at the outlet malls in Fremont, IN. I did some Christmas shopping at the Bath & Body outlet store and some shopping for me at Dress Barn. It was a successful shopping day!

In the evening we ended up in Van Wert, Ohio at our friend Jill Fast's place. Jill went to college with us and is married with two little adorable boys - Zane and Jace. We watched the Ohio State game, ate, caught up on each other's lives, and played with the boys. We had to leave long before we were ready, but the two hour drive back to Goshen couldn't be avoided.

Jill's husband Mike and their youngest- Jace

Deanna, me, Jill, and Denise

Sunday was pretty much business as usual...Living Room, church, lunch with the college students, shopping, and dinner & meeting with the RAs. I've been working on homework and baking cookies for a floor meeting that is happening at 10:30 tonight. Until later...