spring break!

it's early saturday morning and i'm watching the office, ignoring my pile of homework & laundry. i just got home tonight from a sweet spring break. i didn't really have any plans until sunday afternoon when i decided to go home for a few days. home was good, normal, etc. took a bunch of photos of the snow outside...yeah. won't be home until easter, so that's fine. THEN alyssa picked me up in worthington and we headed to rochester to hang out with nick, and then stayed with some of alyssa's high school friends. then it was off to eau claire to hang out with jen from lys' project. i met a ton of awesome people -- a handful of them will be on project w/ me this summer in brazil. i really like their campus (i made it up the big hill just fine...but once was enough). it was interesting to go to their Cru meeting (and NOT have to do anything to set up or help!) and see how they run things. got some good ideas for the rest of the semester for our meetings.

All in all, it has been an awesome break. i could have gone to panama city beach with crusade ... but this was a lot of fun, and i'm not really a 'beach' type of girl. I had an open road in a beautiful part of the country, no agenda, a full tank of gas & a hundred cds between the two of us, along with some of my mom's cookies and a very good friend. on the way home i had this feeling that my life was real again, that all the stress of school and trips and conflicts and work is not what life is about. that drive through the wooded hills of wisconsin was all i needed to clear my head and remind me of a very important part of life-- sit back and enjoy the ride; it's a journey, not a destination.