This last week I had the amazing opportunity to spend time with one of my best friends Ashely Bowman (formerly Bricks). The week went by quickly as we finished the preparations for her wedding and spent time with the wedding party, quading, riding motorcycles, having bon fires and other random fun activities.
The family she married into were such great hosts and welcomed us all into their family for the week. Mrs. Bowman cooked for us and stocked our room full of snacks and ammenities for the whole week. Mr. Bowman worked on remembering our names and trying to learn more about us and our families. It was so nice to just relax and enjoy their company!
It was great to spend a whole week with like-minded people who could just have good clean fun (except for all the mud involved) and be able to worship the Lord through the relationships built.
Sunday a small group of us went into New York City for the day. Adam's brother Aaron and his best man Zach escorted four of us girls and made great companions for the day. They were complete gentlemen, opening every door, paying for all necessary items (subway tickets specifically) and carrying two of the girls' luggage (one was mine) from one end of the city to the other.
It was so great to be able to spend time with guys on such a different level than normal. On the way to the city in the 4 hr car ride we played multiple "get to know you" games like I have never, and Hot Seat. It was the latter game which I enjoyed the most because we got to know everyone on a deeper level without it being awkward or weird. We were all honest and down to earth and no question was off limits. There were some funny questions as well as some very personal, deep, thought provoking questions. I couldn't have asked for a better day or a better group to spend it with. I will always remember this past week. Some of the random activities we did were lots of picture taking, sight seeing and funniest of all a couple of people in our group did something called "Ghosting". You can youtube it or you can watch our original video :) Let's just say it made for some great laughs.
In all of our fun and despite our every effort, we ended up not being able to make my flight at JFK because of construction on the subways (of course) and a storm between the Staten Island Ferry and the subway. The biggest wind storm I've ever been in kicked up right as we got off the ferry. It was awesome (although it was the guys who had to haul our bags during the whole episode but they insisted. Like I said, they were awesome friends to do that for us.)
In all of it we had such a great time hanging out, talking, taking pictures and just being together it was hard saying goodbye but we'll always have the memories. We even discussed creating a business for Wedding Party Rentals: Just add the Bride and Groom!
