wonderful weekend

a couple of our closest friends from our d.c. days, jason and missy, visited us ...

for the weekend. we gave them a brief whirlwind tour of kentucky, relaxed a bit, and played games with friends like old times. after picking them up late friday evening from the airport, we ended up staying up until 1am just chatting, catching up, and reminiscing. we went to bed with no alarms (besides jacob's internal need to wake up with the sunrise) and enjoyed the one morning of the week that doesn't require a clock.

we ventured over to the seminary and then had lunch at this great little mediterranean restaurant that i never take the opportunity to visit (mentioned here recently). with our bellies (more than) sufficiently filled, we spun around downtown lexington and were essentially done with what i wanted to show off of the lexington area so we decided to head out to the big horse track and see what the hubbub was all about. we watched the third race and made modest bets (all lost) on the fourth race. jake loved seeing all the beautiful horses but the sun was beating down so we left the thousands in attendance and headed on home. we took a rest and then grilled out and had some friends from our small group over to play games all evening. a great time was had by all as we dug talkin' tango and cranium out of the closet.

sunday morning was church followed by a delicious italian lunch at bella notte. for the afternoon, i wanted to show off more of the mountains of kentucky so we ventured out to natural bridge for what turned out to be a bit of a hike. jake was a trooper and the view was beautiful! after a bit of a drive (and some ice cream!) we arrived at home for a short nap before going out for dinner with a local pastor who is an old friend of missy's. great food and conversation to wrap up a wonderful weekend.

we are looking forward to attempting to visit the d.c. area in april or july of next year. we'll see what happens!