ADVENTURES ABOUT MANHATTAN

Today was a lovely day. So much adventuring and shenanigans. The good kind of shenanigans.

Rebecca and I went into the city this morning to attend Hillsong NYC. Sidebar, SPECTACULAR church! End sidebar... We missed our train this morning and had to delay an hour and wait for the next train into Grand Central Terminal. Not a big deal. We walked about Mamaroneck for a little bit to pass the time. Most of the shops weren't open though.

Once we got to church we found seats, just barely, and settled in. The church is in an old club/bar. There was a disco ball. And chandeliers. And so many people. And they gave us water and m&m's. The worship was wonderful. The message was wonderful. The atmosphere was wonderful. Suffice it to say, Hillsong NYC was wonderful. We found our new church.

After church... Lots of walking, lots of laughter. Lots of good times. I will share some funny things that happened.

Walking into a store... or something, I don't even remember where we were now. But we had to go through a revolving door. And really quickly Becca jumped into the door right behind an Asian woman. And for ever so brief a moment the woman was stuck with Becca in the door. I died with glee.

We saw a man face plant after falling off his bike. I am pretty sure he broke his face and teeth. I felt very sad for him. But when talking about how on earth such a thing happened; because he was on the sidewalk and there really didn't seem to be a logical reason for him to fly at the ground with his face, something got lost in translation. Becca said that there must be ghost holes and that is why he fell. He ran through a ghost hole. But I didn't hear her correctly... I head ghost TOLLS. And I got this image in my head of invisible tolls that need to be payed and he didn't pay, so the spikes shot up and popped his tires and thus the flying at the ground with his face... That gave us a good chuckle. Also, Becca asked if we should go over to him, but he was across the street from us and he had like seven other people helping him. Did we do the right thing?

Word of the day used correctly in a sentence; rapscallion. It was the best word that was used ALL day.

This morning while waiting for the train into the city, we were sitting on a bench and the express came shooting passed us. Becca's hair went flying into my face and her train tickets got swooshed up in the commotion of the wind from the train. It was flying about and she screamed, "My ticket!" But I grabbed it before it could escape us. That whole ordeal amused me.

This morning when talking with each other, filling each other in on different happenings in the time since we last saw each other... At some point while I was speak I said "aboot" out of nowhere. I stopped mid sentence shocked at the word that just accidentally emerged from my mouth. I have no idea how such a thing could have happened. We laughed about it for a good minute.

At the church, the atmosphere is very hip and young. Lights and music and a disco ball. I told Becca I felt like I was at a club. And that this was probably the closest I'd ever be to going to a club... church.

There were so many more hilarious and wonderful things that my mind has now lost and I cannot remember in order to transcribe them here for your enjoyment. For that I apologize.

Just know that it was grand.

A GRAND DAY.