My Weekend Rundown

Oh how the days have gone. I am on my way to take a nap (I was up at 4 this morning...), so I'm gonna make this short.

SATURDAY
The future in-laws, Mr. and Mrs. Bellito, took Joy and I to Wrigley for my second Cubs game of the year. This time, there were no snow flurries, the ivy was in full glory, and we had pretty fantastic seats, about 25 rows up right on the first base line. Pretty sweet. I even learned how to keep score with a score card and will proudly show it to anyone who is interested. Cubs lost again (I think they're at 4 in a row now or something), which means I still have never seen them win, but hopefully soon. There's just something about it that makes me long to go back.

SUNDAY
After a morning church time with the visiting Eric Miller, the Wightman youngings and I made a great lunch of BLT's supplemented by Mrs. Wightman's ridiculously amazing cookies. Then it was off to meet Loralee for a day downtown. It was my first time to the Taste of Chicago and it was everything I thought it would be. We walked with the masses, stopping every once in a while to trade in some tickets for some tasty treat. We felt amazingly American. We couldn't imagine any other country where people pack out the park to walk around and feed themselves over and over again all afternoon. In essence, we loved it. My favourites were a giant steak burrito, a watermelon icee, and a great saffron rice with goat meat. Yummy. After walking with the hundreds of thousands, we found our way to a little grassy area near the lake where we spread the blankets, opened up the bag of cherries, and sat and waited for the fireworks show. We ended up running into all sorts of people from Joy's church and eventually Breck and Heather, our friends from Blom's wedding, found their way to our area as well. The fireworks were positively splendid and the rush to find a bathroom afterwards was priceless...

MONDAY
In the morning I went to the church where all the Royal Servant teams had gathered for a commissioning service before flying overseas. Kelly's sister Kim is off to Nepal this summer, so the Blomgrens were there as were many RS alumni that I cherish and love. There was even a surprise visit by Andrew Ulasich and Drew Torrence. Truly, a great afternoon. We then took the Blomgrens and headed over to the Bellito residence for a 4th of July dinner.

TUESDAY
This morning, at 9:53 a.m., I passed my verbal exam and officially became a Starbucks barista. I am no longer just a partner, but I now possess that coveted title which basically means I can make any possible drink you may throw at me. Bring it on. It was a proud moment in my life.

With that said, I'm heading down for a nap. Peace out.