weekend update

I went to visit Kevin over the weekend. It was great timing; I really needed a vacation. He was preaching on Sunday so I went over to listen and made a weekend of it. Good times and (as it typically the case with visiting or being visited by Kevin) good food.

We went to a little place in Durham called Loco Pop. They make home-made Popsicles with real fruit and other not-artificial ingredients. Mine was mango melon, Kevin got a mojito-flavored one. Yummy and awesome. Now I want one... dangit. We also went to the Macaroni Grill with Christine on Saturday where there was very good food and a great bottle of wine. (And I typically don't care for reds.)

Kevin preached on Hosea chapter 1 on Sunday. It was his last Sunday as their ministry intern. His sermon got mixed reviews, but a number of folks seemed to like it and hopefully got a spark of inspiration from it. The congregation is a smallish, somewhat wealthy congregation out in the suburbs.

My intent was to head home after church, but really, I should have known it wouldn't happen. We had a late-running lunch with the other ministry intern and his in-laws (that was interesting) and then we took a long nap before having Christine and Lindsay over for chicken satay. I left early Monday morning and drove straight from Durham to work. Hey, it worked, even though I was dead tired. And I think sleeping on the air mattress all weekend resulted in a pretty substantial headache for me today. But it's gone now and life is good again.

Now to book a flight to Chicago for next month...