chicago. and such.

i've got tons to do
which of COURSE means it's a perfectly good idea for me to blog right now...

this is my reward for diligently working on papers for the past hour or so. well, as diligent i can be amidst the chaos that is the computer lab with the undergrads here this week. *sigh* it's hard to write a paper on philosophy of ministry when there are 8 people talking loudly.

this past week has been a whirlwind. we did camp tours last week and that was pretty awesome.




this is my "i'm so angry at you snow!" pose.















we ended up in wheaton by the end and got to have our personalities tested by some grad psych students. they pretty much confirmed much of what i already knew about myself. it was good to go through the process though.
while i was down there tim vdb picked me up and we went to part of a youth ministry conference at willow creek on thursday night. it was awesome and just so encouraging. ALSO (weird) some of my kids from youth group were there!! i was so excited to see them! among them was none other than geoff tittyung. i like to keep suprising that kid apparently.

friday we had a camp tour in madison, then most of the team headed back to honeyrock and 5 of us went back down to the wheaton area. me, jess, and katrina stayed at jess' house.



saturday tim vdb picked me up again and we hung out in chicago all afternoon!





it was super fun. we went to the sears tower and rode a boat to see the city skyline.















we tried to stifle our laughs as our tour guide talked about the great chicago fire and i kept saying "boom boom boom boom" and "fire fire fire"...
we also played tag. ok, i played tag.























thennnn we went to see jason as the tin man in the wizard of oz in a stellar community theater production. ok- jason was stellar.

and it was good times for all who gathered there.








oh jeeze.


so... long story short. incredible weekend with awesome friends.



and i choose this song because i was in chicago... and because it's in my top 10 favorites...

"i fell in love again, all things go, all things go, drove to Chicago.... you came to take us, all things go, all things go to recreate us, all things grow, all things grow..." sufjan stevens - chicago