Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everybody! I had a very pleasant holiday, and I hope you did too.

I spent Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday nights at my aunt’s house in Philadelphia. We stayed up too late and had a lazy Thursday morning trying to figure out if I could get up to NYC that afternoon. Made a decision just in time to catch a bus at 2:00! It was a quick 32-hour trip and back. I had Thanksgiving dinner at the Brooklyn JV house with about 15 other people (a much better option than with 20 people I'd never met), and then spent the night at West Harlem’s little apartment. Friday was spent wandering around NYC with Sarah (a West Harlem JV) and her boyfriend. We walked through Battery Park and the World Financial Center, taking in the views of Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, and Ground Zero. It was a lovely sunny day, although the breeze was cold! Then we perused the exhibit of women’s dresses at the Museum of the American Indian. At 4:30 we began walking down Broadway, past Wall Street, toward Times Square. After an hour, with tired feet and 30 blocks left to go, we hopped on the subway. I only needed about 10 minutes to take in the electric commercial insanity of Times Square, and then we headed our separate ways, me walking the 10 blocks to Penn Station to catch the bus back to Philly, buying a chicken kebab from a street vendor along the way.

On Saturday, Lark and I went to the Art Museum to look at the exhibit of Gee's Bend quilts, which was really cool. Then we picked up my friend Marie' (another Methodist from Oregon), who spent the night, and we all went to Chestnut Hill UMC together on Sunday. It was very cool.