AUTHOR: Sandi TITLE: Spring DATE: 4/07/2010 07:48:00 PM ----- BODY:

It is spring and there is pollen everywhere, it looks like some manic kid shredded yellow sidewalk chalk all over everything! Fun stuff. However, overlooking the sneezing, roomie and i decided to make Easter weekend count. Friday saw us driving up to charlotte NC to visit a real mall with multiple floors and everthing! hooray for civilization! where we both bought super pretty dresses, roomie for a formal and me for the summer cruise with the greatest family in the world. (Cruise Countdown: 38 days). After driving back from our shopping adventure we watched LOTR: Two Towers the Special extended version, which I had not seen and I've got to say the extendedness is pretty sweet. Then to waffle house at like 1 in the morning, an excursion that seems to be becoming more of a habit for me, probably not wise, but fun. Saturday, naturally was spent in bed recovering. Easter Sunday was fantastic, in spite of getting up late but still determined to make it to the 9:15 service anyway. I only missed the first song a Decemberradio cover which I have now discovered I ADORE. The service was amazing, I mean I knew Newspring was amazing but this was just wow. If you haven't heard Phil Wickham's song 'True Love' before, this is the way to hear it, I was in tears, just be aware of some graphic images. Just check out the Newspring Homepage for about the next week, the song starts about 12:40 in the video. Perry's message was beautiful, True, powerful and saving, seeing someone realize the sacrifice and love of God for the first time: Never. Gets. Old. After church roomie and I adventured to Lake Murray for the first time, the beach was nice but unimpressive, still a good spot to enjoy our lunch of amazing bread, cheese and carrots while browsing through an issue of Architectural Digest. But the highlight of the day was walking across the dam. Two miles both ways and the amazing smell of water! I'd forgotten what a radical difference it is to breathe water all the time. How refreshing! That pretty much wrapped up the weekend perfectly, then Monday rolled around and I had to closet myself in the library finishing my herm midterm, but it got done and I can now tell you more than you ever wanted to know about Acts 1:8 which is actually pretty cool.

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