Loooong Weekend

We got home last night from our trip to Merritt Island around 6:30PM. Let me back up in case you didn't know or forgot. Monday was a holiday (MLK) so I was off, in addition both Kathy and I took Tuesday and Wednesday off. So that gave us a rare five (5) day weekend!! It was great. We had a "normal" weekend on Saturday and Sunday. Then Sunday evening around 7:00PM we left for Merritt Island, Florida - Which is near Coca Beach (Kennedy Space Center). We went to a conference with our friends from our church. The conference ran from about 1:00PM Monday until noon on Wednesday. After the conference ended yesterday, we drove home. While we were gone, Katlin stayed with my parents and Kiel kind of split his time between our house and my parents (Thanks again for keeping an eye on them Mom).

I have got to tell you that the conference was outstanding. We have only been going to our new church for about a year and half. This was an excellent opportunity for us to see what the Calvary Chapel movement was all about. I must say that the teaching and worship at our church and the conference are probably the most relevant that I have experienced. The style in which The Word is taught is non-threatening and meaningful. There was one partlicular speaker at the conference who did the morning devotionals that really, really spoke to me. I'll talk more about what he said in another post but suffice it to say it's all I have been thinking about it since I heard it. It was awesome.

Besides the conference itself we enjoyed hanging out our friends, Rob and Robbie. It was the first time we had spent any real amount of time with them. I'm sure they are "Cravatta'd Out" and are probably in some type of 12 step program recovering from the time they spent with us. But we really enjoyed hanging out with them and getting to know them. We really enjoyed going to dinner with them (or eating lunch in their van) and picking their brain about the Lord and Calvary Chapel. They really love the Lord and are very knowlegable about His church and ministry. Plus they are alot of fun to hang out with, not the stuffy church type. I haven't laughed that hard in years as I did at dinner on Monday night. All in all, it was a great break with a great purpose and with great people. I hope that we have the opportunity to go again next year cause it is worth it.

Hope everyone is well and enjoying the New Year. I have several things that I want to post in the near future. I've had a few thoughts on my mind and since the conference I have a few more. So I'm going to try to be better about posting to my blog. I'm even considering giving this blog a face list and spicing it up a bit. We'll see - all depends how ambitous I'm feeling. Right now I'm not ambitous, I'm tried. The Tylonel PM is starting to kick in and I'm beginning to fade. That's enough for now, my bed is calling my name.