How appropriate that my college roommate was here for Easter weekend (since she came with me to Piper City almost every year for the holiday as well!) I was so excited that Jenn and her friend, Anna, were able to swing through Winston-Salem on their road trip from New York to Charleston! They got to see several of the downtown bars as we celebrated a friend from our building's birthday - and I even broke out my dancing shoes for the occasion!
I did make Jenn work a little on Saturday though because I was in charge of picking up all of the flowers for the "awakening of the cross" on Easter Sunday. Thankfully Jenn's sister worked as a florist for awhile and we were able to call her when we weren't sure what to do with all of them when they didn't fit in the refrigerators at church! In case you're ever in the same predicament, food (especially fresh fruit and veggies) will kill flowers so a bucket of water and a cool, dark room will suffice if you run out of empty refrigerators. As Stephanie assured us they would, the flowers still looked fine the next day (and I didn't lose my job.)
My coworker took some pictures - most were of the different stages of the cross being filled with flower, but there was (ironically only) one posed photo of a family (who happens to be friends of theirs). Does the guy look familiar to anyone? One Tree Hill fans? He's the actor who plays the semi-pro basketball coach that Nathan plays for now on the show! And he goes to my church! How crazy is that?
After Jenn and Anna left, Chris and I rode our bikes out to the baseball stadium and watched a great game in practically perfect weather. Then after a quick shower, we went up to Suzi's place for a "traditional Irish" meal of "bangers and mash" - which is (at least in this case) a bratwurst on top of mashed potatoes covered in peas and grape tomatoes.A little different from Easters of the past - I was totally bummed by the lack of competitive family egg and basket hunting... (I had planned on hiding the endangered species chocolate bars I bought for everyone, but Jenn was sleeping on the couch in the living room, so it didn't work out...) but as usual - a great day nonetheless.
By the way, now that I've entered the facebook world, I've noticed I've been neglecting my blog. So much social networking to do, so little time. (Chris' new theory is that facebook is the root cause for the demise of our economy - it's complete with statistical analyses of time/productivity/etc.) Anyway, we have less than two months left here (if you take out weeks of vacation where we're gone...)! So sad!
