And off we go! After an uneventful meeting at the airort, a flight to Upstate New York and a "colorful ride through the Hudson Valley (ask about that later...), we arrived at the beautiful Sprout Creek Farm. Our hosts were warm and welcoming and we soon discovered that we were movin quickly into a different culture! Our cabins were ready for us, so we put away our gear and started by remanding our electronics for the week. Good bye cell phones, good bye, MP3s and iPods. Time to focus on the Simple Life! A wonderful snack of (fresh) cheese quesadillas and home fruits was ready for us too! We had the opportunity to journal about our first impressions and expectation for the week, and then we changed and were off to a beautiful church. I guess a group of 12 new teenage girls in the neighborhood was more than noticable, so we were asked (3 of us) to take up the offertory gifts during Mass!...and the priest came over to "meet the new girls in church! Celebrities, to be certain! Dinner was just after we arrived home...Chicken pot pie, fresh-baked bread and apple crisp...all from the farm (or a farm close-by). We then learned the dish-cleaning routine and swept up, ready for reflection and journaling again. See you all tomorrow, bright and early!
So I guess I texting Allison every morning at 530 is pointless?
ReplyDeleteI am so jealous! I want to be there so badly. Pet all of the baby goats for me. There were never baby sheep when I was there...so cute. Don't you love all of the pictures Georgie has taken...she's so talented. And the food--it's so yummy!!!!!!!! I want to eat farm cheese--Colin, is so talented! Tell Margo and Georgie hi for me. Have a wonderful time....the simple life is so great...you will love communing with God in the barn, in nature, and on the farm w/o the distraction of electronics. And of course, with each other. I will read your blog daily with anticipation and home sickness for the farm.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Mrs. Jones