First people had honeymoons. More recently people have started taking "babymoons" - a fun pre-baby trip for 2. Well, we had the pleasure of taking, what I like to call, an "engagementmoon" last year...
Obviously, I didn't plan on having an engagementmoon, but I'm so glad that we had one... ;)
We went to Boston from March 28 to April 4, 2010 with a group from the singles ministry at our church. We went to serve with Redeemer Fellowship Church (a new church plant in Watertown) as they advertised for and hosted a pre-Easter block party and Easter worship service.Here we are riding the train to Watertown from the airport.
Setting up our cots for the week.
Richard and I volunteered to serve on the food team. Here is half of the kitchen.
Here is the other half of the kitchen. Before we got there, we were told that other teams had nicknamed the giant eight burner gas stove "Hades."
Laura and Sandra... the other half of the food team. :)
I wish I had a picture of the four of us shopping at the grocery store. We felt like the Duggar family... I'm sure the four southerners with our three shopping carts full of food stuck out a little in Star Market that day. I now have a greater respect for large families and the massive amounts of food it takes to feed many hungry people. As you can see we managed to fill the trunk of our full-size rental car to the brim. Rather impressive, I think.
Free Day
So what do you do on your free day in Boston when it is raining buckets?
Take a duck tour of course! This is a WWII amphibious vehicle that has landed at the beaches of Normandy. It was a great way to see town during the rain.
Here is a view from inside the "duck."
As always, the engineer is fascinated by structures such as this:
I told Kiale she was my little pink duck on the duck tour ;)
A beautiful cathedral
Not only was it rainy that day, but windy too. Check out all the broken umbrellas in the trash can downtown.
Boston Harbor
We met up with our friend Karoline, who showed us around and took this sweet picture of us (but somehow I didn't manage to get a picture of her).
Random shot of Richard with the team hanging out in the background
Our map of Watertown after we distributed all of our door hangers for the block party in 3 days!
Glutenus Minimus... a delightful gluten-free bakery we discovered while we were out distributing our door hangers. It was fun surprising Laura with some delicious gluten-free treats!
Block Party Time!
Here we are unloading the party items from the trailer.
Putting together the inflatable obstacle course
Here is the final product!
Next, inflating the moonwalk and soon we're ready to party!
Zach and Amy getting a little crazy testing out the moonwalk
Paul has your popcorn!
Richard and Tom manned the hot dog station.
Andrea and Kiale kept the kiddos sugared up at the snow cone stand.
Laura G. helping the kids decorate cookies
Laura V. at the ever popular face painting station
While I was helping Chris with the obstacle course, I snapped the best photo of Jay EVER! Don't you agree?!
Later that night we headed over to Harvard Square for some ice cream. Here are the gents.
Happy Easter! Here is the church before the worship service.
Beautiful flowers symbolizing our new life in Christ! We had a great team and an amazing trip!
Random shot as we were getting ready to leave the airport.
This one makes Richard laugh.
